Dáil debates
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Departmental Expenditure.
11:00 am
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
The imposition of pay cuts, as distinct from them being agreed, makes the industrial relations situation more fraught in the immediate term but people also have to accept and understand that we had to discharge our responsibility as a Government in terms of a budgetary policy that would take into account pay cuts given the adjustment we had to contemplate in the budget.
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