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Mon 01 Jan 2009Senior civil servant offered to take €10,000 pay cut
A PRINCIPAL officer in the Civil Service has written directly to the Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan offering to take a €10,000 pay cut this year.
The civil servant concerned told the Minister that the gesture was in response to the payroll cuts imposed across all Government departments in recent months “and the request to be proactive, in the national interest, in the current economic climate”.
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