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NTMA management agree to 15 per cent pay cut

However, one senior employee at the State agency refused to accept the reduction.

Nama CEO Frank Daly is among those who have agreed to the cut
Nama CEO Frank Daly is among those who have agreed to the cut
Image: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

SENIOR OFFICIALS AT the National Treasury Management Agency have agreed to a 15 per cent pay cut requested by the Minister for Finance.

Only one of the highest earners at the NTMA rejected the cut, which will apply to all salaries higher than €200,000.

Those who agreed – including all ten members of the senior management team and four other staff – will take a pay cut up to a maximum of 15 per cent, or the difference between their total salary and €200,000.

The CEO of Nama, Frank Daly, is among those whose salary will be reduced. He had already agreed to accept the cut before the request from finance minister Michael Noonan was circulated to other high-paid staff.

” I would like to acknowledge the positive response to my request of those NTMA staff who waived part of their salary,” Noonan said in a written answer to a question from Fianna Fáil finance spokesperson Micheál McGrath.

Noonan confirmed that top-paid managers at the NTMA – the body which manages the Government’s assets and debts – also waived all performance bonuses for 2011. However €62,610 was paid out in bonuses to five other employees.

For 2010, the equivalent figure was €1,981,760.

Last month Noonan revealed that the average salary of the NTMA’s 433 employees – which includes all 193 staff working for Nama – was €93,225.

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Comments (20 Comments)

  • So, in other words, more than ten people are earning over 200k p/a at the NTMA. That’s nice! (It’s not, at all)

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  • No doubt the one who refused will be named and shamed for his unpatriotic attitude eh?

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  • An average of 93k…. Makes the mind boggle

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  • Poor bastards are really going to struggle now ! Lol! Wow! Sainthood awaits them !

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  • No point bashing the people who are getting the high salaries. I agree with everyone that they are far too well paid and change is needed but hell if the state wanted to give me 200 smackers a year I wouldn’t be saying no.

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  • Shocking wages! Truly shocking wages. Not one person in this greedy debt ridden little delusional country deserves anything close to 200,000 and that’s a FACT.

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    • I wish it was reality. These people are living on the pigs back.

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    • I’m down a pay cheque a month. No one asked me ( & others ) would u like to take a pay cut. There were no “constitutional” issues to sort out etc etc etc. I thought Ireland was broke. I don’t buy the argument that u have to pay big wages to attract the best. We did pay big wages in the past & we still got monkeys. They shouldn’t be asked to take a pay cut. It should be cut like it was cut from you & me. No choice.

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    • Jerry 02/04/12 #

      Worth every cent all Nama staff doing a great job

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    • Steady on there Martin, that opinion fuelled by logical thinking or anger?

      Some people earn more than others, they always will. Wages won’t necessarily be fair either. But wages are a result of supply and demand, if we could get people of sufficient standard to do these jobs for €25k we would. But we can’t, in the same way you can’t get people to sell you a car for a tenner. These people are experts, who have studied for years and have a lot of experience and valuable knowledge in this field. And it’s these high wages that pay the majority of income tax anyway, €200,000 earned PAYE pays over €70,000 in tax, €16,500 pays zero.

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  • The crux for me is that surely someone on 200k could afford to live on 150k for a bit could they not. They would pay far less tax and other deductions so their net loss would be reduced considerably. But herein is the problem. Currently many of the people resisting such voluntary cuts are in the mire regarding their debts. The chalet in the Swiss alps is not paying for itself, they can’t get to Marbella at all even with mick o Leary and the apartment on the Quays is empty. Oh and throw in the BMW X5 that does 15 miles per gallon and costs 130 to fill and there ye have it.

    Regardless of this it is much easier for someone goin from 200k to 150k than someone coming down from 60k to 40k. Come on high earners give a wee bit more!

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  • What does the NTMA do, now that Ireland is out of the bond markets?
    I know NAMA are busy sitting on a vast amount of rapidly depreciating property, taking everyone they can to court and, of course, freeing up credit in the banking sector.
    There must be a few suduko world champions in the treasury management side of operations.Pending Irelands imminent return to the bond Market.

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  • There’s going to be lots of bashing here as the wages are so high but the NTMA are in charge of raising money for the state and investing our money so it needs to recruit top class people who demand good salaries …. Same too with NAMA it has to rescue at least 30+ billion to save us money …. A good CEO will rarely cost money but make it … Even though this country is in bad nick it was politicians who were voted in repeatly by the public who mismanaged the finances against all the advice of the likes of the dept and NTMA

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  • Arthur Daly

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  • Jay funk 02/04/12 #

    Can we not look at the positive of this story, a 15% reduction is good start,

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