Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Equal pay for equal work is meant to be a basic principle that nobody would dispute. In that case, how can the Minister and Government stand over a situation of real pay inequality in our public sector? For example, new entrants to teaching could be €170,000 or more worse off over a career on the basis of when they entered the workforce.

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