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Fri 08 Aug 2003Criticism from business 'misleading'SIPTU conference: Criticism by business leaders of the benchmarking pay awards to public servants was dismissed as misleading and disingenuous yesterday by the vice-president of SIPTU, Mr Jack O'Connor.The campaign against the awards was partly about concealing the fact that we had the lowest company taxes and lowest level of employer social insurance contributions in Europe, he claimed.