Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I will tell Deputy Durkan what I do not understand. All of the people in various categories who earn in excess of €100,000, such as Ministers, executives of companies, upper management in companies, bankers, consultant doctors and barristers - I am sure we could think of others - do valuable work. However, is their work more valuable than a nurse's work?

Should their work be better remunerated than a nurse' work? Should their work be better remunerated than a teacher's work? Should their work be better remunerated than a bus driver's work? According to the World Health Organisation, the second most stressful job anyone can possibly do is to be a bus driver. They are more likely to suffer from heart attacks than bankers, although we often have this image of the stressed-out banker or chief executive who is worried sick and is likely to drop dead of a heart attack. Actually, it is far more likely for that to happen to a bus driver.

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