Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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The corollary of that argument is that those who will benefit from the highest level of restoration are those on the highest incomes. The Minister claims he seeks to achieve an orderly, equitable and fair unwinding of the financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation.

The fair thing to do would be to start with workers with an income below the €65,000 threshold. In fact, before the legislation was published, the Minister went out of his way to give the impression that this was what he was minded to do. It is only when the Haddington Road and Lansdowne Road agreements are taken together, in the round and in the whole, that one can see what is actually happening in public sector pay.

As a matter of interest, does the Minister have and can he produce a table of income brackets, starting from the lowest paid and up to people with an income in excess of €110,000, and set out for us, year on year, in euro and cents, what the different categories of workers will receive, outside the figures of €2,000 and €200 that have been clearly set out?