Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

I will make a brief contribution. Until now, pension entitlements were dependent on increases in public sector pay and the automatic link has been broken, meaning we are into a much more vague metric involving the consumer price index, with all the potential ups and downs in that. I heard Deputy Fleming state that public sector pay was ahead of the consumer price index but I do not accept that.

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