Madam, - The British prime minister, Gordon Brown, has decreed that his ministers shall accept a pay rise of no more than 1.9 per cent this year - the same as that offered to nurses and to the police. He said: "We must show the same discipline that we ask of other people."
When will any Irish government have the guts to say this?
I was educated in Ireland (Roscrea and UCD) but have lived in England for 50 years. I've voted Labour all my life and feel finally vindicated. - Yours, etc,
Fr DENIS EGAN,
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Headington,
Oxford,
England.