Michael Comiskey (Fine Gael)

I, too, welcome my colleagues back for this new session. Many of us were disturbed to read in newspapers over the weekend that 99 top civil servants are receiving huge severance pay packages. I call on those civil servants to make substantial donations to a jobs fund. These severance packages are equivalent to what five or six ordinary people would earn in a year. This is not too much to ask at this time, when our country is in such dire circumstances.