Taoiseach Micheal Martin has defended a pay rise for 4,000 public servants earning over €150,000 stating it’s the law. The news of this bump for top public servants comes as the Government comes under intense pressure for failing to move again on helping households as they continue to see the price of food and fuel soar and inflation now almost hitting 8%.
It has now emerged that medical consultants, judges, CEOs of State bodies, and senior civil servants are set to see a bump in their salary from next week due to the restoration of their pay which was cut as part of austerity measures 14 years ago.
Financial Emergency (FEMPI) legislation was used to cut the pay of the public following the financial crash in 2008. But the move has been described as “tone deaf” and a “slap in the face to ordinary workers.”
