Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for raising the issue of CE supervisor pay. In my answer I will also include assistant supervisors and supervisors of rural social scheme, RSS, and Tús schemes, who we also need to look at. My Department has been in negotiations with unions this year. Unions have gone to the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, to open a conciliation process. The Department of Social Protection has been invited to that conciliation process. We should engage in that process, and we are ready to go into that and to make an offer. Before we can do that, we need the backing of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We need its sanction to take the next step. We should do it as soon as possible.

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