Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

——bringing their salaries to over €150,000 a year, or 50% more than their counterparts in Britain. If we are talking about increasing taxes to buttress inflated incomes and waste across the public service, we are sowing the seeds of a revolution on the part of the productive side of our economy. We should have a 10% reduction in salaries across the board in the public sector — I called previously for it. I am now saying that those salaries in excess of €100,000 should have a 20% reduction imposed on the excess of €100,000.