A high-tax cost principle - Pay equality has a very real price

It is hard to think that anyone would oppose the simple, equal-pay-for-equal-work principle. It is a watertight expression of the values around fairness that inform our world. 

These are the values that minister of state Mary Mitchell O’Connor argued for earlier this week, when she said that “everyone who does the same job deserves the same pay”.

So far, so good — but yesterday Minister for Education Richard Bruton distanced himself from former school principal Ms Mitchell O’Connor’s remarks.