Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage
5:30 pm
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source
It is the point I did not answer in the Deputy's question. With the permission of the Chair, I will elaborate lest there be any misunderstanding.
The Lansdowne Road agreement is meaningless if one collapses the entire architecture of the FEMPI legislation. There is no point in negotiating a restoration of pay if all pay is immediately restored. That is self-evident. It is a process of unwinding as opposed to collapsing, which I think would be a shock to the public finances which could not be endured. I do not see how one could find an additional €1.9 billion to pay public servants, for no extra productivity, in the course of 2016.
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