Shut up Martin
by planetparker
Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has said that, because Ireland’s minim minimum wage is the second highest in Europe, it must be examined, with a view to reducing into doubt.
Now Martin is minister for foreign affairs, so why is he being allowed to comment on what is a domestic issue? Do we see Hillary Clinton commenting on President Obama’s health-care reforms?
Martin should have noted, in his statistical comparisons, that Irish ministerial and prime ministerial wages are amongst the highest in the western world.
The Irish hourly minimum wage would hardly extend to one of the hors d’oeuvres offered at banquets attended by minister Martin, and it wouldn’t go near to covering the price of the bottles of wine consumed there.
But the minimum wage has long been a bugbear of the right, for example amongst small-town shopkeepers who regularly telephone the police to move on “black Romanian bastards” selling The Big Issue near their shops.
