Cuts to minimum wage must be reversed immediately

Wexford Sinn Féin Dail hopeful Cllr Anthony Kelly has said that cuts to the minimum wage which came into effect from today, must be reversed immediately as they will only heighten our economic crisis.

Cllr Kelly said;
"The cutting of the minimum wage is further example of economic recklessness from the people who mismanaged our economy during the Celtic tiger era and left us with a broken country. It is the typical mentality of these people to cut the lowest paid workers in our society while paying vast pensions to retiring TDs. Should the ordinary man and woman be forced to pay for the mistakes of these politicians when they can simply retire and claim a three hundred thousand plus pension?"

"Sinn Féin supports the reversal of cuts to the minimum wage and demand that the next government of this state impose budgets that put compassion for their fellow citizens before extreme austerity measures. My party is not living in cloud cuckoo land. We have put forward an alternative budget that has been costed by the department of finance and endorsed by leading economists. Our measures prioritise job creation and economic reform, instead of cutting the most vulnerable in society. Surely that makes more sense."