Sir, – Regarding Brendan Ryan’s letter on the public sector pay deal (Letters, November 12th), even to the least numerate, it must be obvious that the greater majority of public service pay increases, and indeed pay, comes from taxes paid to the State by private sector employers and employees.
I suspect that the private sector employees who also pay the same taxes on their earnings, particularly those earning under €60,000, would appreciate the guaranteed increases and terms of employment that public sector employees are guaranteed. – Yours, etc,
SHARON GALLEN,
Donnybrook,
RM Block
Dublin 4.
