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Tue 02 Feb 2010Lenihan to defend pay cut U-turn for public service high earners
MINISTER FOR Finance Brian Lenihan will tonight defend his controversial reversal of pay cuts for some 600 high-earning public servants to Fianna Fáil TDs and Senators, many of whom have been openly critical of the decision.
Mr Lenihan will address the parliamentary party meeting tonight and explain the rationale for the decision. In the budget he announced that public servants at the assistant secretary and deputy secretary levels – and equivalent grades throughout the public service – would be subject to pay cuts of between 8 per cent and 12 per cent, depending on salary.
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