A Government decision taken two months before the recent Estimates made provision for a significant increase in ministerial salaries and pension provisions. Does the Leader believe it is incumbent on the Government to backtrack on this given the savage cuts proposed in the Estimates, the most insignificant of which is the first-time buyer's grant? The more significant issue is the proposed €2 billion reduction in the Estimates for public services. Does she not believe the Government has a moral responsibility to practise what it preaches and renege on the quite sizeable increase in its own salaries and pensions announced eight weeks prior to the publication of the Book of Estimates?