There is no dis­cus­sion be­fore Cab­i­net to cut the salaries of MPs dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The ques­tion of MPs tak­ing a salary re­duc­tion was put to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley dur­ing Sat­ur­day's press con­fer­ence at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, St Ann's, in light of Gov­ern­ments around the world, agree­ing to a slash in their salaries to help tack­le the COVID-19 eco­nom­ic cri­sis.

Last week, New Zealand Prime Min­is­ter Jacin­da Ardern and her Cab­i­net took a 20-per-cent pay cut in the fight against the virus, while St Lu­cia's Cab­i­net of min­is­ters agreed up­on a 75 per cent re­duc­tion in their pay pack­ets as well.

Asked if the Gov­ern­ment was mov­ing to cut MP's salaries dur­ing this cri­sis, the PM said the largest pay­ment of salaries in the pub­lic ser­vice was not MPs.

"We pay $4.5 bil­lion in pay­ments and there is no con­sid­er­a­tion at this time to cut any­body's pay."

He said MPs have so far made their per­son­al con­tri­bu­tions.

Last month, Row­ley said he made 50 per cent of his salary avail­able to pro­vide food for his Diego Mar­tin West con­stituents.

"I am not get­ting in­volved in this MP salary cut sto­ry. That is a mat­ter...I know all the MPs on my side are out there shar­ing their re­sources with their con­stituents."

The PM said the salary cut was a nice sub­ject to raise.

"And that is not a mat­ter for the Cab­i­net. There is no dis­cus­sion in front of Cab­i­net to cut any­body salary. So I want to make that very clear be­cause I know where that is go­ing."

He said he was hop­ing that as we look at our cir­cum­stance go­ing for­ward that that "would not be­come a re­quire­ment for the peo­ple on the Gov­ern­ment's pay­roll."

Guardian Me­dia sent Row­ley a What­sApp mes­sage ask­ing him if he had man­dat­ed his MPs to give half of their salaries to their con­stituents, but got no re­sponse.