IMF eyes minimum wage as part of €3.5bn cut

Cutting the minimum wage is back on the agenda of the IMF together with a raft of measures to cut at least €3.5bn off the budget for next year.

But Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore was adamant that the Government would not concede on reducing the minimum wage despite it being among the highest in the EU.

“There will be no change in that, we are not changing it, it stays,” he said.