'The Tablet' gets it wrong on voluntary salary reductions

There was a report in The Tablet of June 20 about the Catholic archdiocese in Dublin cutting staff numbers amid mounting financial pressure

In the piece Sarah Mac Donald writes that priests in Dublin agreed to a 25 per cent cut in their pay in a bid to offset the drop in income. That is not accurate.

How voluntary was it? There are still priests working in the diocese who have not even been told about the reduction in salary. The first they learned about it was when they checked their bank statements.

One priest in the diocese, when commenting on the cutbacks, questioned the salaries paid to a number of senior people working in Archbishop's House in Dublin. He felt that the running of the diocese has become far too top-heavy and bureaucratic.

Has the 25 per cent cut applied to all clerics in the diocese, including senior clergy and the archbishop?

It would be interesting to know the salary of Irish bishops.