Sir, - The following is a representative sample of job offers from your Appointments Page, with starting salaries:
Temporary solicitors in the Chief State Solicitor's Office, £14,400; Legal secretary with three years conveyancing experience, £12,500; Accountant, £16,000; Junior secretary, £7,000; Project manager/development officer at the International Centre for Development Studies at University College Galway, graduate with higher qualifications in social science discipline plus practical research and field walk experience, £18,000; Sports Complex administrator with qualification in recreation management and/or physical education, £14,000; Senior microbiologist, £18,000; Telephone support people for European call centre with Italian/ German/French, £12,000.
Perhaps the offer the nurses have rejected is not quite as derisory as they seem to have convinced themselves. - Yours, etc.,
Sutton Park,
Dublin 13.