Gormley: TDs should volunteer to give-up increments

Green Party leader John Gormley has said that TDs and Senators should take the initiative and give up their long-service increments.

Since the announcement in this month’s Budget that the payments would be cut, it has emerged that members of the Oireachtas who currently receive them will not lose the increments, and that legislation will be required to deal with the issue into the future.