Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Earlier in the year, the Public Service Pay Commission published a set of proposals on this issue. The Government has already given a commitment that we will fund and implement these proposals for next year. A meeting of the oversight committee of the public service stability agreement is taking place tomorrow. As the Deputy will be aware, the way in which we engage with trade unions on issues such as this is through that body. We meet all unions together. It is not just a case of dealing with the issues in the health service raised by the Deputy because the knock-on consequences of that for all of our public services would cause huge challenges next year.

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