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

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have no problem doing so because I want to understand this properly. Paragraph 5.5 states:

The Parties note that, notwithstanding the improvement of the country’s fiscal position, [there is no emergency] the legislative constraints imposed on public service employers under the financial emergency legislation will continue to be the context for pay determination during the lifetime of this Agreement. They are agreed on the importance of achieving a sustainable public pay policy that will continue to support the ongoing economic recovery over the coming years as the financial emergency legislation comes to be amended and repealed. The Government confirms that it will engage with the representative bodies of public servants during the lifetime of this Agreement in advance of it deciding on any alternative pay determination structure.

I ask the Minister to help me to understand that.

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