Councillors set for major wage hike

CORK’S city councillors are in line for major wage hikes while the city’s social welfare pensioners look set be hit with bin charges for the first time tonight.

The politicians, whose representational payments and expenses are set to jump from next year thanks to Government proposals, will meet this evening to vote on the city’s 2007 budget.

Among the budget proposals are controversial plans to charge social welfare pensioners bin charges.