Local authority salaries - No sign that gravy train is stopping

There seems no end to the excesses of the public sector, judging by today’s report on local authority salaries.

Despite calls to cut the number of lucrative senior posts in Ireland’s city and county councils, the gravy train rolls on.

Beleaguered taxpayers, suffering under the austerity regime, are forking out €1m a year to nearly every council in Ireland to underpin high salaries for senior civil servants. Despite emergency pay cuts, the highest earners remain protected.