Pressure is mounting on TDs to forego a pay rise that is due to them from next April.
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The payment has been criticised in the aftermath of the budget, which has seen pensioners forced to wait until March or April to receive the top-up in their payments.
TDs are due to receive an extra 2,700 in their salaries next year, and a further increase of the same amount in 2018, but already Ministers have been told to waive their salary boosts.
TDs are currently paid 87,000 euro a year, an amount that has been defended by former Clare TD, Independent Councillor James Breen.
