Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

There is one rule that this Government applies, and it applies equally to everybody. That is why, from the very beginning of this Administration, we took unprecedented steps to cap the salaries of senior public servants and staff in the semi-State sector and to change the inherited arrangements pertaining to pensions and severance deals. From the very beginning of the life of the Government we took steps which had not been taken previously to cap the pay of senior public servants and others in the semi-State sector and change the arrangements we had inherited in regard to pensions and severance deals.

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