Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick East, Fine Gael)

The Government has been selective in accepting recommendations. It accepted a recommendation on the pay but did not accept the recommendation for increases to be performance related. The Tánaiste did not answer my question. The ordinary benchmarking report gave few increases to workers on relatively low to middle salaries. However, Ministers are taking increases of well above the average industrial wage. At a time when it is seeking pay restraint in future negotiations with little given to the ordinary workers under benchmarking, does the Tánaiste believe it is correct to accept such exorbitant increases, which are more than the average industrial wage?

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