Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 5 - Vote Budget Management
11:30 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
The Croke Park agreement came in, as the Deputy knows, to stabilise the situation after one of the pay cuts back then. It was an enabling agreement to get co-operation for changes and reforms that took place. The Haddington Road agreement has those features and more, but has more specific details. We have an oversight group involving representatives of trade unions and management where we examine issues and if there is a problem we try to put it through-----