Joe O'Toole (Independent)

I also welcome the clarification and withdrawal of that comment of Senator Walsh's. It is welcome it has been dealt with.

I must gently disagree with my colleague, Senator Fitzgerald, on the matter of the Government pay increase. It was properly processed and dealt with and the figure was given by an independent body. I have said this here previously and I have been a single voice on this issue. Nobody opposite would dare to say what I am saying.