The country's top-earning civil servants could be in line for a pay increase of up to 30 percent.
A salary review by the Department of Public Expenditure in today's Irish Examiner is recommending pay increases of between €60,000 and €105,000
It claims the hike is needed as the current salary cap is limiting the government's ability to attract top talent from the private sector.
But the chairman of Wexford County Council, Michael Sheehan, says any increase would be totally unacceptable.
He says after the tight budget a few weeks ago, it's 'amoral 'for people to come forward to seek such a high increase.
Michael Sheehan says no one is better off after Budget2020 and the Minister for Finance should just consign the plan to the bin.
He also believes it would set the wrong precedent and could open a 'pandora's box' of industrial relations problems.
