Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

That would be claimed straight away by the entire 320,000 public servants who have signed up to the agreement. That end of the argument must go into the benchmarking process. The other two or three are possibilities, although I do not know whether that has to continue in NIB or some other one. That aspect of it, however, must go into the benchmarking process because that is what everybody else it in. It is not a question of being difficult with the nurses, but one cannot take any element out of that as it is just not possible to do so, and certainly not for a group with 40,000 members.

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