Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I do not think the Deputy and I have any difference of opinion on this. It is a question of how we do it rather than what we do. Of the 18 individuals I mentioned, one is a Member of the Oireachtas. That confused me when I saw it; it is, of course, the President, who is a House of the Oireachtas in and of himself. I should tell the House that the President has indicated to my Department that he wishes to undertake a voluntary pay reduction, and that has been put in place.

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