CAERPHILLY council agreed to set aside another £263,000 to deal with the ongoing senior pay officers’ scandal. And that will increase further if the investigation into the three chief officers goes beyond June, 2017.
The BBC recently reported the cost at £2.8m but they failed to include the cost of the pay rises to 20 officers, which sparked the whole debacle. Neither did they include the cost of officials acting up or employing two interim chief executives. So the real cost of this debacle is now more than £4.75m and rising.
Before the 2012 council elections. the Plaid Cymru leadership was approached about giving pay rises to senior officers. We refused because the pay of the ordinary council employee was frozen. Labour bowed to the approach.
A Plaid Cymru administration – if elected in May – would seek to resolve this terrible drain on council taxpayers as quickly as possible and ensure this can never happen again.
Colin Mann
Leader of the Plaid Cymru Group
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