Madam, - So chief executives of commercial State bodies are to get "significant increases" because a consultant says their pay is 14 to 20 per cent behind the average in the private sector (The Irish Times, January 9th).
But this observation is valueless unless accompanied by statistics showing that CEOs are fleeing State enterprises to join the private sector. They are not; and I would suspect that is simply because in their present jobs they are cosily protected from the rigours of shareholder ruthlessness. Fourteen to 20 per cent sounds like a reasonable trade-off to me. - Yours, etc,
TONY ALLWRIGHT, Killiney, Co Dublin.