Martin Mansergh (Tipperary South, Fianna Fail)

-----dealing with the same subject but perhaps in a slightly different way.

With regard to the question of consultation, I fully agree with what Deputy Shatter said about considerations of appropriateness having to be taken into consideration. What happened in the case of the pension levy was that the Chief Justice approached the Revenue Commissioners to devise a system whereby the Judiciary could contribute the equivalent of a pension levy on a voluntary basis, and I do not see anything inappropriate about that.

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