Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Sunday Business Post has reported that the troika will say, "Sorry, all future employees need to be paid 80% of the salary". If the State cannot afford to pay its employees, if it cannot afford to pay the people in these Houses, then so be it. The level of public sector pay across the board needs to be reduced, to come down. However, do not say to our brightest and most intelligent and youngest, who will build the future of this country, that they will do more for less while we enjoy the spoils. That is slavery in any other language.