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

With a view to getting the best outcome for everyone, I will not get into the nitty-gritty of this. We have had two successful processes over the past couple of years in terms of securing the gratuity and the 5% increase for CE supervisors. I have put a lot of work into those two processes in the background. I have been asked questions about them, while they were in process, in this Chamber. For the benefit of those processes, I have held off on the detail. I will say that negotiations are not complete. To my knowledge, they are in an exploratory phase at the moment. An additional meeting was scheduled for November but it had to be postponed for good reasons. There was no other motive for the postponement apart from there being practical issues around availability that meant it was not viable to proceed. My understanding is that there will be an attempt to reschedule that meeting before Christmas. Once again, it may be difficult to do so for simple, practical reasons of availability.

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