Seanad debates
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
SCHEDULE
I am proposing a linkage where reductions have been made to the pay of classes of persons paid directly out of public money. There should be a requirement for an objective test that such a law would be in the public interest. Equivalent reductions to the remuneration of judges should be allowed, where such judges come or would have come within these classes of persons but for the provisions of this article. In other words I wish to make clear that the cuts in judges' pay should be permissible where they would have fallen into that class of pay from which cuts were already made after 1 March 2009, were it not for the fact that this constitutional protection exists to bar reductions in judges' salaries. That is a clearer link between judges and the salary class into which they fall.
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