Don’t be harsh on public workers

THE real issues with regard to public pay are of course now lost in the oppositional bloodletting between public servants and fellow workers employed in the private sector.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and his colleagues in the current Government presided over a period of so called economic boom, which at it core, fuelled the greatest percentage rise in property anywhere in the world.

Both public and private pay rose exponentially to allow the housing buying public the privilege of owning a home in a dizzying upward price spiral. The key problem generated now for both public and private workers, lets call them workers, is that we are trapped in the grip of “high equity”. Most public sector workers are still managing to service their property loans, a reality lost in the divisive and distracting national debate on pay.