The fact of the matter is that 40% of their salaries have to be borrowed every month and that 40% has then to be serviced a rate of 5.83% for seven and a half years… same with the next 40% of their cheques etc. We have a choice, we have inflated salaries to levels which are far too high we can pretend that everything will be all right and continue on to pay these salaries from borrowed money until the entire system collapses or we can adjust the salaries of judges, politicians, bankers, barristers, accountants, RTE presenters all the way down the line. Peoples homes should be protected and nobody should have to pay more than a set percentage of what they earn to pay for the roof over their heads. We already have FG and the unions gloating about getting into power. What a nice prospect it is to have Jack O'Conor and David Begg stalking the corridors of power once again. I watched O'Connor waltz into the Dail about two months back he adeptly side stepped a couple of hapless taxi drivers who were protesting outside the Dail he did not even cast them a sideways glance. The judiciary, the politicians the unions are in it up to their necks and if it takes a revolution to get rid of them, so be it, better to burn out than to fade away what do think Bock? Must we continue to pay politicians who have bankrupted the state is that not creating moral hazard? It has to be management by objectives and payment for results not payment for failure and pensions and golden handshakes all round for abysmal failure. Everyone in Limerick should recognise O'Dea for what he is, an apologist and propagandist for FF an opportunist parish pump politician, since he went into politics representing Limerick the city has gone from bad to worse. (yes, I know there are some good things happening and thank god for that) In my opinion O'Dea cares more about his moustache than he does for the people of Moyross or Southill. People in Limerick should vote for the independents who run in the city.

I agree with you about our Taj Mahal government with jets barely in the sky before they have to land again because the island is too small. Meanwhile, their Garda drivers have their foot to the floor trying to meet them in Knock airport or Kerry Airport with the little dog in the front seat of the car.

Were Mr. O'Dea's pension contributions paid even though the number of lectures he have in the NIHE back in 1981 were miniscule? In other words is Willie going to draw a lecturers pension as well as his Dail pension even though he has been extramural for close to 29 years? Maybe Bock would look into that one for me?

As for the money for pensions they have just been made liquidate the NPRF by the IMF because they kept boasting over and over about it. "We are well funded into the middle of 2011 and we have the NPRF etc) ….. That's grand, you may toss that on the table too Paddy! There is an unfunded Public Sector contingent liability on the books of the state for 114bn Euro according to the Comptroller and Auditor General's accounts for 2009. After we have robbed Peter where is the money going to come from to pay Paul? And I am only talking about public servants because the NPRF was only to fund themselves and not the ordinary person.

None of these politicians who have destroyed the country should get a pension and as a small favour to them we may agree not to put them in jail though I think that might be hard to sell to the ordinary person, the unemployed, the exiled, and the person who can no longer keep his or head above water.

Amen to that!

So we are now in December and the IMF are in running the country and demanding weekly cash flow statements from the caretaker FF/Green government. Yesterday, I listened to Brian Lehihan talking to Pat Kenny, justifying 3 different cuts to the blind, he also assured the country that "banks would not receive bonuses for a very, long time". It appears in Lenihans time frame a long time is 24 hrs. That is how long it took for AIB to declare they were paying out 40 million in bonuses to the people that bankrupted the bank. Then I read that NAMA have paid out more in "professional fees" in its first year than the total amount paid out in 13 years of the Moriarty (more robbery) Tribunal as well as increasing their own NAMA salaries by 75% in year one.

We are a joke and the people of Limerick will run out to vote for Groucho I suppose? Vote Independents!!!!

The Irish government have done a lot of damage on the poor of thin country, they had the neck of cutting disabled people and to be totally honest I hope they all rot in hell, they have messed it up so much that ever if someone that gets in in the election they have a big mess ahead of them, I truly can't they bailed out the banks and cut the poor of this country, they will have no luck for doing this and I believe that God will deal with all of them in time, so if they see bad things to their loved ones they will only have themselves to blame.

The stupid shower we have let do all they have done, we were fools to let them in and have the country in this big mess they let happen.

I would like to know one thing, are any of them getting 200 euro a week, no they are not, could they live on 200 euro a week, we will never know as they gave themselves a large amount of money a week and we had to pick up the pieces after them, shame on them, they forgot one thing they will die just like all of us and just like all of us will have to face God for what they have done, one thing I do know is they will never get out of hell for all they have done on this Country and the poor here.