Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

It is a promise of a different kind for the unfortunate staff of all these agencies; it is a promise from the Government that their pay will be cut. I want the Taoiseach to admit this is what it amounts to.

On my second question, yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach and he finally admitted that the number of senior public servants who were being treated more favourably than every other public servant with regard to pay cuts, was closer to 600 than it was to 160. I also asked the Taoiseach about the cost of that decision. He said he would get back to me. I ask him if he has that information today.

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