Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

-----demanding sackings in the public sector and cuts in the wages of low and middle-income public servants whose pay has already been cut by 15% in recent years? Is it the case, by any chance, that the Taoiseach is going into a Cabinet sub-committee with Labour Party Ministers while having the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, fly kites for Fine Gael to see what further increments in austerity might be put on the shoulders of ordinary people as part of ongoing Government policy? Is it proper that one of the Taoiseach's Ministers should join what has been a four-year campaign of denigration of public sector workers by certain newspaper chains-----

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