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

I have two questions on wage inequality. There was a report today on the gender pay gap widening. It reduced during the recession but that it has widened since is an alarming and disappointing sign. Do the witnesses have comments on that?

Due to the cuts imposed during the austerity period, pay equality is at the heart of the teachers’ dispute. Nurses and various other people, including the ushers in the Houses, have also been affected by this pay apartheid. People are paid different amounts depending on when they started. What do the witnesses have to say about that?