Dáil passes laws for super junior ministers' pay rise

The allowance was described as "obscene" and "nauseating" by the opposition during angry Dáil exchanges.

Responding, Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris said there was "a real stench of hypocrisy" in what Sinn Féin was saying. "This is about ensuring that the situation enables the Government to allow anyone who is entitled to the allowance already, on the virtue of attending Cabinet as a minister of state, draw down that allowance, that is what this is about."

He asked: "How can you possibly justify that when there were nurses who were infected with Covid-19 on the frontline who didn't even get sick pay?" He said in bringing forward the proposals, he had consulted the party leaders and said the general view across Government was that all three should be treated equally, and the plan was unanimously backed by Cabinet.

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