Michael Mullins (Fine Gael)

The special advisers and any of the top earners who are being paid from the public purse. We must ask where are the salary caps about which we hear so much. Why is a person heading up an organisation that has cost this country so dearly being paid four times as much as the Taoiseach? Many people in this country would think that gentleman is not doing as good a job as the Taoiseach is even though he is being paid four times as much. It is very difficult to convince people to pay the household charge when they see that sort of income being paid to the head of an organisation that is the cause of our having to find so much money to pay the banks.