Sinn Féin Call On Labour To Support Political Salary Cuts

The Sinn Féin Party in Cork-East is calling on all the Labour members of Cork County Council to support a motion calling for a 40% salary cut of TD’s, Ministers and the Taoiseach in the new Dail after the forthcoming General Election.

Cllr Sandra McLellan, who is the party’s Cork East election candidate, said she was very disappointed to discover at the January 10^th Council meeting, that a similar motion to hers in the name of Labour Cllr Noel McCarthy was prevented from being moved by the Labour Whip Sytem.

Cllr McLellan said, although Cllr McCarthy’s original motion called for a 30% cut in TD’s salaries, as opposed to Sinn Fein policy which calls for a 40% cut, she had been eager to give it her support and was gutted to later see that Cllr McCarthy had been prevented from moving the motion.

Sinn Féin is now calling on all County Councillors, particularly Labour members, including Cllr John Mulvihill, its Cork East election candidate and Cllr John Gilroy, Cork North Central candidate to support Cllr Sandra McClellan’s motion when it’s moved at County Hall next week