Letters to the Editor: Salary call sends all the wrong messages

Taoiseach Micheal Martin addressing the nation at Government Buildings in Dublin last month.  Picture: Julien Behal Photography

I appreciate that we are living through difficult times, with difficult decisions to be made. But the Government should not allow the salary travesty for the secretary-general of the Department of Health to proceed.

By doing so, it is sending out the clear and unambiguous message that the job that Robert Watt does is equivalent to and actually more important than that of the prime minister of Britain. Based on the remuneration package, it is more important than our own taoiseach.