Controls on wages for the ‘little people’

Wage control, it seems, like much in Ireland, is for the little people, writes Brian Lucey. 

The pixie-heads get patted on the head and told how good we are to bear down and buckle up, while the protected elites roll on.

For many, many years the closed shops in Irish professional life have been the subject of scrutiny from Europe. Time and again we have been told that these must be opened up. In particular the legal services situation has been pointed to as an example of a professional service which is in dire need of reform. And very little has happened.