Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As the budget draws closer many people, including students, are raging that the very people who brought the State to its knees continue to enjoy exorbitant pay and pensions.

I understand from a response to a parliamentary question that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, asked Mr. Alan Dukes in April last to reduce the pay of these bankers and that Mr. Dukes told him to get lost. Does the Tánaiste think it is acceptable for a former Fine Gael leader who, by the way, continues to claim a large ministerial pension and who presides over this bankrupt toxic banks to tell the Government to get lost?

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