Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

In conclusion, in view of all the strictures and the Minister's lectures regarding public sector workers generally, hitting in particular low and middle income public sector workers, where is the Minister's policy left by the revelation of recent days of the sweet shops in hospitals being raided for tens of thousands of euro extra for chief executives? A huge gulf of inequality is being created between them and the workers at the coal face. Does that not make a mockery of the Minister's policy?

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