Cabinet set to agree freeze on pay increases for ministers

The Cabinet will next week agree a freeze on pay rises of up €12,000 for each minister following a backlash over scheduled salary increases.

Cabinet set to agree freeze on pay increases for ministers

Separate rises for serving TDs though will have to be voluntarily returned, the Government confirmed, after calls for deputies to also give up top-up payments.

Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe is set to bring a note to Cabinet next week to ask his colleagues to forego increases, due under the restoration of public service pay cuts.

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