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
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I will remind the Minister so he does not trip himself up. He said when they had all these heads in the room from all these sides, there were a whole lot of niggly things that had been bubbling away for the past few years. He said they dealt with them all on a one-to-one basis and several agreements were struck but were not part of the Lansdowne Road agreement itself or the formal process. In reality, however, they are an additional cost on public sector pay which, in truth, was not included in the Minister’s budget day figures. In his budget day announcement, the Minister said he had €300 million allocated for the Lansdowne Road agreement. How complete is that figure relating to the increase in pay and other agreements concluded around that agreement?