Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Members received similar information in this morning's session. However, such salaries are gigantic when one considers the €20 billion in taxpayers' funds and the crucifying austerity that is being implemented as a result of bailing out these banks and the speculators who lent to them, which is affecting the poorest and the lowest-income people in our society. How is it morally justified that the bank can continue to pay such huge levels of salary?