Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

She is a member of the legal profession and maybe would hope to join that august body some day down the road. I always worry about members of the legal profession giving Government advice on giving salary increases to other members of the legal profession. I must put on record that I question this.

In accordance with advice from the Office of the Attorney General, amendments to the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act of 1961 are being brought forward to regularise the position with regard to the arrangements for remuneration of members of the Judiciary. This Act also provides that persons newly appointed to the Bench are not restricted from achieving pay parity with existing judges following the application of measures of the FEMPI Act 2010. The Minister might have an opportunity to clarify it. On the face of it, although I may be wrong, there is something fundamentally wrong if we are passing legislation here to allow judges not to be restricted from achieving pay parity with those who were appointed some time ago. Can we do that for teachers?

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