With the greatest of respect, this is about people on low pay.

I just want to make the point-----

This is about low earners.

Deputy Brady raised an issue-----

This is not about people who come in here; it is about low earners. Is the Taoiseach going to say to them "I'm all right lads"?

Deputy Brady raised an issue-----

Please.

The Deputy is not going to try to browbeat people with shouting, roaring and heckling.

This is about workers on low pay.

The Deputy knows damn well-----

This is about workers on low pay.

The Deputy is being very simplistic, very populist.

This is about workers on low pay. The Government just wants to have a cheap deal-----

I am going to come back to the point on public service pay.

The Taoiseach should. He should stop playing politics and answer the question.

The salary of a Deputy is linked to the principal officer grade and has been for more than 20 years. Does Sinn Féin want to break that link? It is the wealthiest party in this House. It is the wealthiest party in this country. It draws expenses from Westminster. It draws expenses from the Northern Assembly. That is well documented by programmes.

They are listening to the Taoiseach.

The Taoiseach is trying to play politics with the hypocrisy of politicians getting a pay hike when others are getting pay cuts.

The party has no shame about how it draws money left, right and centre.

That is where it is at.

The way to deal with wages in this country is to have a progressive taxation system that taxes those on middle and high incomes more than those on low incomes. That is what we have in this country. I am not going to play cheap political games-----