Áine Collins (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Since 2008 practically every private company in the country, or at least most people at senior level, have taken reductions in their salary. Everybody has been affected. The witnesses, in the prudent management of the board, made a decision, without discussing it with the five members of staff in receipt of a top-up, in some cases the top-up was almost as much as their salary and in other cases it was almost 30% of a top-up-----