Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----in a bid to defend the indefensible. I have put it to the Taoiseach on this specific matter that the removal of this pay cap, as though €500,000 is not enough for a senior banker, Fine Gael, true to form, wants to bust through that and go back to the bad old days when bankers could earn obscene amounts of money in their salary and obscene bonuses. The culture has not changed one iota within the Irish banking system. I have asked the Taoiseach on that issue how he stands behind that. How does he defend that? This is the Fine Gael Minister for Finance’s last throw of the dice in favour of the very wealthy and the overpaid, while ordinary people struggle.

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