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MLAs To Consider 16% Pay Rise
A review of Northern Ireland's MLA's pay is expected to recommend a 16% pay-rise, taking the MLA's basic salary to £52,000. MLAs will themselves then vote on whether or not to accept the recommendation.
That's clearly not going to do much to help reduce the cost of Stormont, and is completely unjustifiable in the current economic conditions and comes at a time when the Prime Minister is urging MPs to show restraint on their own pay.
A Sinn Fein MLA has already said her party will oppose the pay-rise as out-of-line with both inflation and the pay-awards other public-sector workers are being asked and/or forced to accept. Well done them. Let's see if anyone else follows suit (all the parties' websites seem silent on the issue).