Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

The Deputy raises some very pertinent questions. I made my general view clear yesterday, when I announced the new cap on salary levels within the public service. I said that nobody in the public service should earn more than €200,000, which is a healthy top-level salary, and that nobody in the commercial semi-State sector should earn more than €250,000. The exception to that will be the National Treasury Management Agency and its subsets, one of which is NAMA. Deputy Fleming will be much more familiar with this than I am. Did he participate in the famous all-night sitting on the NAMA legislation?

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