Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

My colleague, Deputy Paul Murphy, referred to the justified case that is being made by my trade union, ASTI, the Garda Síochána, nurses and doctors and a growing list of public service workers who feel that the Government has been very remiss in not just unwinding but getting rid of FEMPI and the whole approach relating thereto. The Minister will be under significant time pressure when he meets the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, which he came before a few weeks ago. He will need to have arrangements in place for both the post-Lansdowne Road agreement era and spending over and above the €300 million he expended this year. There is a time factor. What does the Minister intend to do about pensions? There has been some adverse comment about some of the lump sums in the highly-paid top echelons of the public service and the fact that people in the House have restoration, while the workers to whom I referred, and the other workers, do not have the same restoration.

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