Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not going to take time to respond to the Minister bar to say that he should be better briefed, especially in his Department. He would know that all five parties in Northern Ireland opposed the increases of £1,000 to MLAs and asked for it to be deferred. No Minister or party of any political view passed legislation to increase salaries in the North. What they, including Michelle O'Neill MLA , actually did was to call it scandalous and outrageous and to say that it should not happen in the middle of a pandemic.

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