Pressure on Coillte boss to cut salary

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has upped the pressure on Coillte chief executive David Gunning to take a 15% cut to his €297,000 salary.

Speaking at the Fine Gael presidential dinner in Dublin over the weekend, Mr Kenny said he was “disappointed” not all semi-state chief executives had volunteered cuts.

It was a clear reference to Mr Gunning, as Coillte is the only semi-state organisation resisting the Government’s request to apply a 15% cut to chief executives.