Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

There is a difference between gross pay and take home pay. Let us be clear about it. This Government has cut the take home pay of people at senior level in politics by approximately 44%. That is the total cut in take home pay. There is a limit to the amount of hypocrisy we can take from the Sinn Féin party on this question.

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