Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Irish people have had enough. Some 800,000 people in the public and the private sector have taken serious pay cuts and some 200,000 people have lost their jobs. This morning Anglo Irish Bank announced that it is to give pay increases to its staff both here and in Great Britain. It said these staff are to be paid extra money because of extra responsibilities arising from redundancies. This cannot be justified.

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