Cutting PUP while increasing TDs' wages 'tone-deaf', says Pearse Doherty

Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty has described the increase in wages for TDs as “tone deaf” at a time when the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) was being reduced.

Nobody was suggesting that the wages of TDs should be “cut to the bone” he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show, but what they were paid was still “a crazy amount”.

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