Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
2:00 pm
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
The Minister's documentation echoes the objective of controlling public service pay and sticking with the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI. Given that the Minister has set out his stall, that he intends to carry out what he described this morning as a scoping exercise with the public sector unions, I presume he envisages a deal in time for the budget. He is committed to ratcheting down or unravelling FEMPI but he also stated here that he is committed to implementing it and sticking with the current formulas. I am confused. These are confusing messages. I ask the Minister to clarify this.
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