Michael Harty (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is a financial Bill with the stated aim of delivering an orderly exit from the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 and a return to normal industrial and business relationships. It provides for pay restoration and some lessening of the public service pension levy. This is welcome when it applies particularly to most public service workers starting on 1 January 2018. It is interesting and extraordinary that the Labour Party has not presented a speaker on this Bill tonight.

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