Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The minimum payment for a Defence Forces member is €27,000 and it has increased with the public service stability agreement payment. I am giving the Public Service Pay Commission the time and space to carry out its work. We gave it a very comprehensive joint submission from the Department of Defence and military management, which worked very hard on this evidence-based document. It is exactly what the pay commission sought. I will not predetermine the outcome of the pay commission's work and I will allow it do its work. It is a fully independent body away from the political sphere.

These are people who will look at this in a very independent way. Allowing them to look at the challenges we face is the proper way to go about this. We have given them evidence-based data. It is not for me to recommend-----

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