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

I have done specific work to ensure community employment supervisors got their pension and gratuity over the last couple of years and, in particular, on the 5% across-the-board pay increases for CE, Tús and RSS supervisors. We now have this additional ask. While it is not without merit, we have to look at it carefully. We are amenable to discussing and talking.

The Deputy asked a specific question about when the next meeting will be held. I do not know. That is the honest answer but my understanding is that it will happen before Christmas. I do not want to nail that down as a certainty. It depends on people's availability between now and Christmas. That is the main issue blocking it. There is no reticence on our part about discussing the matter further.

To my knowledge, a document has not gone to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform but there certainly has been communication. Obviously, in any negotiations around pay and conditions that Department holds the purse strings.

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