Taoiseach to defer cabinet pay increase

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern and his cabinet will agree to defer their massive pay increases in the coming weeks, an informed source indicated last night.

There are “misgivings” within the cabinet over the increases, admitted the source, who did not wish to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.

His understanding was that the Taoiseach would now “like to find a way” of deferring the increases.