The government was forced into cutting the minimum wage by the European Commission, according to the leader of the Green Party .
The rate is to be cut by one euro an hour under the four year €15bn austerity plan published by the government on Wednesday.
John Gormley said the cut to €7.65 an hour was one of the conditions set down by economics commissioner Olli Rehn.
Criticising Fine Gael's vow to reverse the cut, Mr Gormley told the Dáil that the pledge was "completely nonsensical because this was the first demand of Olli Rehn and others that this had to be in the plan".'
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