Fianna Fail MEP Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher still hasn’t decided whether to give up his pension of €23,634 which he receives along with his €91,500 MEP salary (Irish Independent).
He claimed he had issues from his constituents on his plate and had to focus on them without thinking about his pension.
Fine Gael MEP, Jim Higgins, said a court order relating to a “family law matter” was preventing him from surrendering his ministerial and Dail pensions, which amount to €60,000 a year.
Hypocrisy and greed still rampant within our political system.
HOW much more must we the tax payers put up with? I for one have really just had enough. i have lost track of all the tribunals to date and not one prosecution except Liam Lawlor who decided WHEN he went to jail. i am and always have been a law abiding citizen paid my way in taxes and everything else but for what????we are getting robbed from the very top down.CAB are after drug dealers,money launderers and so forth but they are actually all in the DAIL so WHY look elsewhere??i am truely sick to my stomach from all the fraud in this Government WHEN will us people get sense and get rid of the whole lot of them,as in all the parties there at the moment???are we really STUPID??????