BID TO STOP TD PENSIONS.Byline: AINE AINE Antiinflamatorio No Esteroideo (Spanish: nonsteroidal antiinflammatory) HEGARTY THE Government will unveil new laws New Laws: see Las Casas, Bartolomé de. in coming days to take ministerial pensions off greedy sitting TDs, it has been revealed. Legislation is needed to stop the controversial payments after many politicians refused to give up the plum sums. Finance Minister Brian Lenihan had written to the 31 TDs to ask them to give them up, but only 16 replied. Labour's Deputy leader Joan Burton, who has given up her EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 8,187 pension, yesterday claimed it was Fianna Fail backbenchers who are refusing to decline the payments. She said: "The key difficulty for the Government is its own senior back-bencherwho are in receipt of very substantial pensions. The Government is unable to get them to agree." Although the cut is being pushed by the Fianna Fail-led Government, the party declined to reveal how many TDs were backing the move. A spokeswoman said: "It's a matter for the TDs individually." |
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