Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move:

That Dáil Éireann:

in view of the Government’s:— exhortations to Irish citizens to embrace austerity;

— decision to raid ordinary citizens’ pension funds;

— threat to end tax relief on ordinary citizens’ pension contributions in the forthcoming budget; and

— recent changes to the qualifying conditions for the contributory state pension;calls on the Government to end the current system of paying grossly over generous pensions and massive lump sums on retirement to office holders such as Cabinet Ministers, Taoisigh, TDs, Senators, senior public servants, State regulators including the Financial Regulator, members of the Judiciary and the CEOs of semi-State bodies and State-funded banks.

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