HARRY McGEE, SIMON CARSWELL and MARTIN WALL
A total of 57 employees of two State-owned financial institutions, Irish Life, and Permanent TSB, earn basic annual salaries in excess of €150,000, Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has disclosed.
In a response to a Dáil question from Sinn Féin finance spokesman Pearse Doherty, Mr Noonan said some 38 employees of Irish Life receive annual salaries in excess of €150,000, with two earning more than €400,000. It was also disclosed that some 19 employees of Permanent TSB earn more than €150,000 per annum. The bank's recently appointed chief executive Jeremy Masding earns a basic salary of €400,000, while nine employees earn annual salaries of between €200,000 and €399,000.
Further €60,000
Mr Masding also gets a further €60,000 paid towards his pension scheme. He was also in receipt of vouched expenses of €52,034 to compensate for costs incurred in relocating to Ireland earlier this year.
The chief executive of Irish Life, Kevin Murphy, received a salary last year of €500,000 and “other remuneration” of €86,000. Mr Doherty said last night that Mr Murphy's pay package breached the Government's own pay cap of €500,000 and added that his question had elicited the information that Mr Murphy, who is 62, will retire on an annual pension of €305,000.
Mr Doherty described the payment levels as obscene.
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