On the day the government was supposedly concerned about the cost of living soaring, it emerged that a civil servant’s fourth pay rise in the space of a year will take his salary to over €300,000.
If ever you wanted a snapshot of unequal Ireland it was yesterday as ministers squabbled about measures to offset inflation as news broke about the ever rising salary of Robert Watt.
While the Taoiseach was doing his best to pretend to feel our pain he was again increasing the salary of the enigmatic Mr Watt for who knows what.
