Fan Yun asked Zhuo Rongtai about his salary. Zhuo Rongtai said that he had not received his salary yet and compared it with Guo Rongtai's.

When the Legislative Yuan reviewed the 2015 Central General Budget, Kuomintang legislator Weng Xiaoling was dissatisfied with the Executive Yuan's failure to countersign the bill and proposed freezing the salary of Executive Director Zhuo Rongtai from September to December. DPP legislator Fan Yun asked questions today (2nd) whether the dean receives a salary? Zhuo Rongtai replied "not yet" and explained that he wanted to compare with Legislative Yuan Han Guoyu. Han is a superior and paid dean, while he is an unpaid dean. He used this to emphasize that the Legislative Yuan cannot use budget resolutions to stop the salaries of government officials who serve in accordance with the law.

The Legislative Yuan held a meeting this morning and invited Zhuo Rongtai to attend the general policy address for the new session and prepare questions. Fan Yun first asked Zhuo Rongtai, "Today is October 2, has your salary been credited to last month?" Zhuo Rongtai replied, "I haven't received it yet." Fan Yun then pointed out that during the previous session, Weng Xiaoling accused Zhuo Rongtai of being unfit to serve as a cabinet minister, so he proposed to freeze the dean's salary from September to December this year. After the proposal was approved by the blue and white, the president considered it illegal, unconstitutional, and unacceptable.

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Fan Yun continued that according to Article 54 of the Constitution and Article 10 of the Executive Yuan Organic Act, it is clearly stipulated that the Executive Yuan is a statutory position guaranteed by the Constitution and relevant laws, and his salary is the statutory budget of the Budget Law. Article 52 of the Budget Law also stipulates that "if additional conditions are illegal, the conditions will be invalid."

Regarding whether similar cases occurred in the past, Fan Yun pointed out that when Chen Shui-bian was president, in 2005, the Legislative Yuan deleted the budget allocated by the judicial profession of the justices, which was judged unconstitutional by Interpretation No. 601. However, now that the Constitutional Court is paralyzed and unable to issue a constitutional interpretation, does the president agree that the spirit of the constitutional judgment should be abided by?

Zhuo Yongtai replied that statutory funds cannot be deleted or frozen. If the Executive Yuan can do it today, so can future ministers; if the central government can do it, so can local governments in the future. As long as the executive branch and the parliament have different opinions, this can happen. Therefore, freezing the statutory salary in the annual budget to constrain the behavior of administrative agencies is absolutely without basis in law.

Zhuo Rongtai also said, "Why haven't I got it yet? I want to compare it with Dean Han here today. Dean Han is sitting high on top, and I am standing here. This is a paid dean, and I am an unpaid dean. Let the Chinese people take a look." However, he said that based on maintaining the dignity of all civil servants and the necessity of work and life, he will not give up this legal right.