Cabinet approves controversial pay increase for judges and whips

Cabinet approves controversial pay increase for judges and whips

Sources have also confirmed to the Irish Examiner, that cuts to judicial pensions have been “restored”.

Opposition party whips and the judiciary have been given a pay increase by the Cabinet, one week after the Government rejected a motion to pay student nurses.

For some opposition whips the stipend paid on top of their €97,000 a year salary has been doubled.

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