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Dail Sketch: Gravy trail keeps on chugging for the boys

Thursday, January 23, 2014 15:21
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irishtimes.com

Miriam Lord listens to what the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin and Joan Collins have to say in Leinster House

And there comes the great day for the senior boys and girls when they get the key to the executive loo. This is what sets them apart.

There is, of course, an orientation session for the newbies, as per the report compiled by the consultants.

“Now lads. Pay attention, here because this is the important bit. There, on the left you have your cold tap. There, on the right you have your hot tap.

“And you may be wondering what that big one in the middle is for. That, lads, is the tap for the gravy. Unlimited gravy – legal and above board – because that’s the way the system works.

“Happy days, wha’!”

It’s a bit tricky for the political class to criticise those lucky executives who slide seamlessly from one well-paid position on the State payroll to another, only pausing long enough to collect a huge gratuity and fat pension.

Why? Because the gravy has been on tap in Leinster House for as long as anyone can remember.

Former leaders, ministers, junior ministers, legal eagles, official advisers and the like – still wallowing in the State’s gravy although their days in the corridors of power are over.

So the Fianna Fáil leader was an easy target for the Taoiseach yesterday when he kept asking Enda whether he thinks it right that top-level officials can skedaddle with their lump sums and pensions into a similar number with the same employer – the put-upon Irish public.

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