Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Notwithstanding the cuts, all the people he listed are all grossly overpaid. Staff in his Department at the most senior levels are grossly overpaid. There is an issue here of fundamental equity and fairness. The Minister is wrongly using the alibi of the old Croke Park agreement to hide behind. He is now moving into the successor to the Croke Park agreement a new agreement with the public service and its workers. If the Government is to have any credibility on the fairness stakes it must deal with that cohort of workers who earn in excess of €100,000. I make that as point to the Minister because he is clearly not minded to do it. I want him to reconsider that position.