Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I will be very brief. I support the amendment and oppose the section and the following ones because in reality what is happening is that what was set up as an emergency measure, a pension levy, which was all about demonising public sector workers and suggesting they had something for which they had not paid, which was not the case as they had paid for it and continue to do so, has been made permanent by transforming the pension levy into a so-called additional superannuation contribution that will continue to be made indefinitely. In reality, it amounts to a pay cut and the consolidation of the pay cut for public sector workers. I am against the measure.

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