Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not allowing the Minister of State to insinuate that I am in some way perpetrating a lie. He can show his income slip to whoever he wants. I have no intention of looking at what he earns or what anyone else earns. What a Minister of State earns is public knowledge. I do not think many people will shed a tear for any politician who earns about €100,000 in gross income. I do not think he wants to pluck on the sympathy chords of the Irish public-----