Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will be very brief. I appreciate that the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, is not the line Minister and is taking this matter on behalf of others. I have been contacted by former An Post workers who are pensioners who tell me that, in March of this year, the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, the Communications Workers' Union, CWU, An Post and the Government reached agreement on an increase of 5%, to be backdated to 1 January 2022, with a further 2% from 1 January 2023 and 1% from 1 July 2023. I am told by the people who have contacted me that no payment has been made since the agreement was reached. I am also told the payment only requires a ministerial signature from whichever line Minister is responsible. In this case I assume it is the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Ryan, and the Minister for Finance, Deputy McGrath. All we are advocating for here is on behalf of those who are on meagre pensions and who have now an entitlement by virtue of the agreement that was reached. The simple question is when they will be paid.

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