Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

For what it is worth, the bus workers believe the low level of subvention is what is at the back of this dispute. I just want to put that on the record.

My question concerns the public sector pension levy and restoration in that regard. In my opinion, it is legitimately a very sore point with public sector workers that, as well as everything else that was imposed on everybody - the USC, pay cuts and so on - there was also this public sector pension levy. I know there has been some restoration for the lowest paid. The question is whether the Minister envisages lifting the burden of this really punitive austerity levy off the backs of those earning under €70,000. I am not urging him to do it for the higher paid, but for the low to middle area of the public sector, as the emergency is over, they should not have this punitive levy continuously imposed on them.