Average Industrial Wage

Sinn Fein could be set to say farewell to their wages policy

David McCann on August 3, 2016, 12:39 pm

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In today’s Irish News, John Manley reports; SINN Féin is set to end its pay cap policy for elected representatives and workers. The party is reported to have completed the salary review launched earlier this year in response to concerns voiced by a number of Dublin TDs about the cost of living in the capital. It is Sinn Féin’s current policy to pay all its members, including ministers and special advisers, what it terms an ‘average industrial wage’, which in …

“Sinn Féin were not in court today. Councillor Kelly was, and he was acquitted of all charges.”

Pete Baker on July 20, 2015, 3:12 pm

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Entirely unrelated to Sinn Féin’s opposition to welfare reform… Last week a Deputy District Magistrate in Londonderry acquitted Sinn Féin Councillor Colin Kelly on charges of fraudulently claiming over £19,000 in Housing Benefit and Job Seekers Allowance between November 2010 and March 2014 – when he was a member of Derry City Council. He is currently a councillor on the new Derry City and Strabane District Council for which the basic allowance is £14,200 p.a. – up from the previous allowance of £9,835 a …