A charity that supports families with seriously ill children has revealed the public has donated €36 million to their cause in the past 15 years. That compares with government funding of €4 million.

It comes in a week when a number of charities have revealed the drastic steps they’re taking to save money. Barnardos has shut down for a week, while it’s emerged that staff at the ISPCC are taking unpaid leave.

In September last year The Examiner published an article from called Shedding light on the pay of charity chiefs by Catherine Shanahan. It outlined many of the charity CEO’s salaries, bonus’ and extras which are outlined below.

But with the ‘drastic steps’ that some charities are taking to save money, should one of them be to reduce or cap top management salaries and expenses?

You can see the full breakdown here:  href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/kfgbidgbqlgb/rss2/">http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/kfgbidgbqlgb/rss2/.

Newstalk.ie:

href="http://www.facebook.com/ThomasPatrickDuffy" target="_blank">Thomas Duffy: Yes- they should reduce their salaries and expenses.

href="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/comments.php?channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D9%23cb%3Df16df347c4%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.newstalk.ie%252Ff307dc877%26domain%3Dwww.newstalk.ie%26relation%3Dparent.parent&colorscheme=light&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newstalk.ie%2F2012%2Ffeatured-5-slideshow-homepage%2Fquestion-should-top-charity-bosses-reduce-their-salaries%2F&locale=en_US&numposts=20&sdk=joey&width=610#" target="_blank">Harry Lee: To be honest, considering the state the country’s charities are in at the moment, it does seem excessive. But then they could use the Bertie Ahern excuse about how much someone in a similar position in a top business in other countries get….and that they are entitled to it according to their contract.

href="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/comments.php?channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D9%23cb%3Df16df347c4%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.newstalk.ie%252Ff307dc877%26domain%3Dwww.newstalk.ie%26relation%3Dparent.parent&colorscheme=light&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newstalk.ie%2F2012%2Ffeatured-5-slideshow-homepage%2Fquestion-should-top-charity-bosses-reduce-their-salaries%2F&locale=en_US&numposts=20&sdk=joey&width=610#" target="_blank">Michael Sutcliffe: Charity begins at home for these Bosses

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href="http://www.facebook.com/desy.balmer">Desy Balmer: CE Schemes, Job Bridge and Volunteers keep charities and many voluntary bodies and HSE funded services going and getting close to their goals and person centered approach whilst 80% or thereabouts of HSE funding is spent on salaries. Double funding, Double standards. BTW the same or similar can be said about GAA so maybe its just an Irish solution to an Irish problem

href="http://www.facebook.com/david.gregg.351">David Gregg:A 130k salary isn’t exactly charitable unless you are the beneficiary of this amount of money.

href="http://www.facebook.com/eoghan.p.carroll">Eoghan Carroll: They should be on the average industrial wage

href="http://www.facebook.com/karen.rafferty.33">Karen Rafferty: Shocking stuff really. Paying charity workers a decent salary is reasonable but nothing should be above average wage brackets. Would love to know who the top 10 earners are – name & shame please!

href="http://www.facebook.com/btwomey1">Bernie Twomey: Yes, some of the heads of charities are earning astronomical amounts of money. Doesn’t make sense to me.