Gilmore: FF robs incomes of public servants

FIANNA FÁIL is “looting the incomes” of public servants to pay for the mess the party made of the once booming economy, the Dáil has been told.

Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore made the accusation after Finance Minister Brian Lenihan introduced the legislation that will give effect to the public sector pay cuts announced in last week’s budget.

At the same time as the legislation was being debated in the Dáil, public sector workers protested against the cuts outside Leinster House.