Ireland politics (Part 2)

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1706

Are you sure. That seems like lunacy.

1707

https://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0220/297872-politics/

“Mr Kenny was entitled to a teacher’s pension: a lump sum of €100,000 in April and €30,000 per annum although he worked as a teacher for only four years.”

as for howlin, he only resigned from teaching in 2009, which means that he wouldve racked up 31 years service so in all likelihood he’d be entitled to around 3/4 of what enda was entitled to

1708

I wonder did he keep making contributions to his teachers pension while on his career break.

1709

he did, sure youd be mad not to

1710

Well sure then why wouldn’t he be entitled to a pension.

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1711

i never said he wasnt: i was asked was he entitled

1712

The qustion you need to ask is, why aren’t you a politician

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1713

because im a civil servant, all the same perks but no irritants like constituents, elections and having to answer for my actions

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1714

You deserve another ten days annual leave, pal.

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1715

You’re on that money, in the civil service?

1716

At top of scale id be on the same as a TD, so is @glasagusban

1717

With all the rest of the add ons?

1718

Free vestments and all

1719

What scale is that? PO?

1720

I don’t get the daily attendance allowance

1721

And the 500k mortgage would account for close to the first 65k of your gross salary.

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1722

If I had the potential to save 700k over my working life would you say I was worth 700k now if I only had 200k of it saved?

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1723

You’d want to be starting a pension at 25 to get a figure like that

1724

If you have rights to an asset worth 700k then yes.

1725

You would want to be a mug not to start a pension as young as possible, a complete mug. My generation will definitely have a means tested state pension