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

Excessive pay was one of the issues that arose at the meeting. This is an issue that weighs on the public mind. I do not think there is any point in trying to disregard it or try to portray it as some kind of crazed agenda for poverty among public servants or politicians. There needs to be an understanding that although we should be paid well, we are not a special category of citizens and we should very quickly lose any delusion of excessive entitlement. For the record, I drive a Nissan Micra. If Deputy Fleming is concerned about very big cars, I can assure him that I do not occupy one of them.

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