Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services
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 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
The way the negotiation of public service pay deals works is that there is a collective negotiation between the employer side and representatives of the employees. The employees are represented by the unions, which are affiliated to ICTU. What is negotiated is a collective agreement that applies to everyone who comes under it across the public service and the Civil Service. What is not done in a collective, national agreement that covers about 360,000 people is to seek to carve out one cohort, or perhaps the Deputy is suggesting one individual. That is not the way a collective agreement for public service pay is negotiated.
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