Cap public service pay

AS Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore contemplate a referendum on giving our European masters sweeping powers to condemn our nation to austerity budgets for generations to come, they should couple with this referendum a question to the electorate — ie “do you favour the capping of all public service pay at €100,000?”

The answer no doubt would be an overwhelming yes and should the Government threaten us by saying these educated well-paid public servants would leave the country, I say that would be their choice. Thousands are leaving our shores every week that don’t have a choice to earn €200,000. It’s highly paid and out-of-touch public servants that frame our budgets of misery and hardship. Maybe it’s time to let the people at the bottom decide what the people at the top are paid.

Michael O’Sullivan