Judges to face pay cut as part of super-referendum

JUDGES will be hit with pay cuts if the public agrees to it in a super-referendum to be held on the same day as the presidential election later this year.

Because of a constitutional clause, public-service pay cuts were not applied to judges, who earn between €147,000 and €295,000 a year.

But voters will be asked to amend the Constitution — probably in late October or early November — to give the Government the power to cut judicial pay.