Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Irish Water: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Jerry Grant:

It would be irresponsible for me to try to predict what the future pay model might be for a workforce with which we have not even started discussions. However, I am satisfied what I said is correct. A first-class utility must have first-class people and must pay them properly. The reality now is new hires in the public sector are not paid the same as people on previous arrangements for things like the defined benefit pension for example. I cannot be certain how those things will pan out in future. I will say, however, that we will pay competitive salaries to hire and retain the best people.

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