All members of the government will take a pay cut of 10 per cent in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, the taoiseach has said.
Micheál Martin announced yesterday that the reduction would apply from himself down to junior ministers.
The cabinet agreed to the change after Michael McGrath, the public expenditure minister, brought a memo to cabinet.
However, it later emerged that the taoiseach will be paid €1,500 more than his predecessor despite the pay cut. Senior ministers will earn just over €1,000 more.
It came after intense criticism of a decision to approve a €16,000 salary top-up to ensure all super junior ministers earn the same.
John MacGabhann, the general secretary of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI), said that if pay equality could
