Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In supporting Deputy Kevin Humphreys I will mention two points, the first of which has been passed to me by Deputy Peter Mathews, for which I thank him. The CEO is on the equivalent of nine Deputies' salaries. I appreciate that we only have 15% of the vote in the bank, but it would send a very important message to the people if we were to use it against such a high salary. We are in the position of having to ask public servants to take another pay cut. It would put us in a stronger moral position when requesting them to do so and obviously we will take a pay cut also.

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