Government bodies exempt from pensions levey (10)

Hi Guys

I was doing a bit of snooping on the net and came across this little bit of info. I'm assuming why these guys are exempt is because they would be classed as private yet own by the government or some one may correct me. take for instance an post they employ 9,500 people and bord gais employ 900 give them an average wage of say 40,000 they would each pay a levy of 2880 a year making a total of almost 30million for the government and thats just looking at two of these bodies.

Link to the leglislation below:



pages of interest 16 and 17

Section 1.
SCHEDULE
Bodies to which the definition of “Public Service Body” does 15
not apply
1. Any body corporate established by Act of Parliament before 6
December 1922 that, upon its establishment, was of a commercial
character.
2. Dublin Airport Authority, public limited company. 20
3. Cork Airport Authority, public limited company.
4. Shannon Airport Authority, public limited company.
5. Bord Ga´ is E´
ireann.
6. Bord na gCon.
7. Bord na Mo´ na. 25
8. Co´ ras Iompair E´
ireann.
9. Coillte Teoranta.
10. Electricity Supply Board.
11. Eirgrid.
12. A harbour authority within the meaning of the Harbours Act 30
1946 or company to which section 7 of the Harbours Act
1996 relates.
13. Horse Racing Ireland.
14. Irish National Stud Company Limited.
15. Irish Aviation Authority. 35
16. An Post.
17. An Post National Lottery Company.
18. Radio Teilifi´s E´ ireann.
19. Teilifi´s na Gaeilge.
20. Railway Procurement Agency.
21. Voluntary Health Insurance Board.
22. A subsidiary of a body to which this Schedule relates, including a subsidiary of any such subsidiary.

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CG PLEASE stop calling it a pension levy. I know that's what biffo called it but that was only because he is not allowed by law to reduce our wages. So he had to put a different name on it.

But it has absolutely nothing whatsoever in any way shape or form to do with pensions..directly or indirectly.

So not only are we paying for the banks..we're paying for all of the above as well!!!

Most of the above would have the same terms and conditions as civil servants..only with better pay of course. They claim to be public servants when it suits them...but not when it costs.

So which politicians are involved with the above bodies? There has to be some reason why they were exempted!!

That was supposed to underlined. Not stricken.

and our taxes are also going towards the subsidised bar and restaurnts in the Dail

Many of these are private companies so their staff can't be classed as civil servants.

that would be correct but they are still all government owned and run

Not so; they are privately held companies that happen to be owned by government owned and in some cases they were purchased by the State from private shareholders. They trade and act as per their being private undertakings overall though they do have some benefits (and pitfalls) of being State owned.

that is correct and in some cases they have already announced pay cuts.....and they call them pay cuts too!