Fianna Fáil accused of sexism over calls for pay cut

Fianna Fáil has been accused of being “sexist” by targeting super junior minister Mary Mitchell-O’Connor and demanding that her ministerial top-up pay be scrapped.

Junior jobs minister John Halligan also said that if one super junior minister’s pay should be cut, so should the wages of the other two super juniors, including his own colleague Finian McGrath.

Speaking to the Irish Examiner, Mr Halligan said Fianna Fáil was picking on a woman by criticising Ms Mitchell-Connor, who was kept at Cabinet by the new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar after his reshuffle this year.