Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Arrangements were put in place in that agreement for increases in pay ranging from 6.2% to 7.4% over the lifetime of the agreement. That agreement made provision for looking at specific areas, such as difficulty of recruitment and so on. It is under that clause, not a reopening of the pay settlement as a whole, that these specific concerns of the Defence Forces have been examined. That is why the matter has been dealt with in this way.

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