Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

This is relevant and tiresome. Allow me to finish my point.

This reduction translates to a €40 a week reduction in pay for a 40-hour week, which most people work in the services sector. In the context of Dáil reform there is nothing at all in the proposals presented, and this is causing enormous and understandable anger across the country about ministerial salaries and the arrangements for pensions for Ministers and what have you. It was very much focused upon in this morning's newspapers with the announcement of the departure of the Minister for Justice and Law Reform.

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