Sinn Fein is urging the government not to go after low paid civil servants in its search for public service savings.
The party wants the Public expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin to ensure that any public service allowances being scrapped will not affect those on low wages.
Minister Howlin is seeking to scrap 88 allowances some of which are paid to gardai, nurses, and local authority workers.
It comes as the government prepares to meet public sector unions and managers today seeking to implement even more cost savings.
Meanwhile the party has launched a new jobs strategy which it says could create 156,000 new jobs.
The party says the jobs could be created by a €13 billion investment funded by the National Pension Reserve Fund, the European Investment Bank and incentivised investment from the private pension sector.
It is proposing a revival of the sugar beet industry, the regeneration of the Cork docklands, regeneration projects in Limerick and Dublin as well as the construction of 100 new schools.
Party President Gerry Adams says the plan has been fully costed and offers an alternative to government proposals.
While the Deputy Leader is Mary-Lou McDonald says lower paid workers should be left alone.
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