Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

How can the Minister stand over doing this at a time when her Government sold the people a pup? Her party said that it would do everything correctly and the people who supported it thought they were doing the right thing.

The Government imposed the cap and every now and then, when it so wishes, it flouts it, which is wrong and outrageous. If it had stated it was never going to introduce a cap, it would be fine, as it could set salary figures at whatever level it wanted, but why did the Minister make a rule for salary caps one day only for it to be broken by the Government on another?

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