Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This recommendation has emerged from the industrial relations process. The Government has accepted the outcome of the industrial relations process. I am not going to pre-empt the outcome of the ballot. The industrial relations process is independent and has come forward with an outcome. The Minister was proactive in all of this. He commissioned the report in the first instance. We have a forthcoming pay agreement which can also become a framework for resolving further issues, in addition to the outcome that has emerged here. We will always work with industrial relations processes. It has to be put on the record that this recommendation came out of fairly significant engagement on all sides.

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