Sanity on cost structures badly needed

AS our Government struggles to restore some sanity to our cost structure, they are encountering pretty formidable opposition.

Members of the judiciary are on salaries six times greater than their Polish counterparts and 1.5 times greater than the French ones, which should raise questioning eyebrows.

The recent bar chart which displayed the comparison between our wage growth and that of our eurozone counterparts from 1999 to 2008 indicated the lack of common sense that pervaded our society during the boom years.