Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a process and there has been agreement, as the Deputy will be aware on the biggest 300, which was very welcome. Initially, it was the first 50, then it was another 250. We need to find a way to deal with this while balancing two things. On the one hand they are private organisations but, on the other, we largely fund them. We cannot divorce ourselves from their ability to pay their staff. When we looked across the organisations, the relative rates of pay and cuts that came in during the FEMPI period were different. There is quite a broad range there that does need to be looked at but, yes, we are fully committed to the process.

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