The payment of €1.4 billion worth of increments to public sector workers over the past six years is being defended.
Figures released by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, and reported on by the Sunday Independent, show that over 11,000 civil servants will receive increases under the increments scheme at a cost of €16.5 million this year.
The former General Secretary of the Civil Public and Services Union, Blair Horan & Political Correspondent with the Sunday Independent Daniel McConnell spoke to Newstalk's Breakfast about the story.
Mr. Horan says an increment freeze would only be a temporary solution and warns any such a move would hit lower paid public servants hardest.
Mr. McConnell says that's simply Government and trade union spin - and the figures don't back that argument up:
