Michael Noonan (Limerick East, Fine Gael)

I agree the Minister signalled this in the national recovery plan but the wording I used, and the question I posed today, is not taken from the national recovery plan but directly from the memorandum of understanding with the IMF and the EU institutions. It states very bluntly that if he does not achieve the targets envisaged under the Croke Park agreement, he will have to cut public service pay. Has the Minister worked out the process, procedure and legal base for possible future cuts in public service pay or is that something he has put on the back burner until there is a change in government?

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