Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 11 (Department of 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 (Shared Services) (Revised)
Vote 19 (Office of the Ombudsman) (Revised)
Vote 39 (Office of Government Procurement) (Revised)
9:00 am
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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Under the terms of the Lansdowne Road agreement, when any new process or modality is being developed to look at issues pertinent to the agreement, I am required to consult with all stakeholders, by which I mean signatories, before I conclude it. It is my objective to begin the consultation with the signatories to the Lansdowne Road agreement soon, by which I mean within the coming weeks, to get their views regarding what role they can play. The process could play a role in examining the question of the pay of new entrants in certain parts of the civil and public service but I would need the input of the signatories first. The Deputy will be familiar with the concept of relativity and will know that when something changes in one area of our civil and public service it has many consequences in other parts. Many unions in the Lansdowne Road process have views on this matter and have already articulated them and I will have to take them into account too.