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- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The facts are clear. The benefit for people who are earning €23,000 per year is an 8.7% increase.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: That is needed in recognition of the contribution those people make every day in the delivery of public services.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I go back to many of the points-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: When one attempts to put arguments to the people who tabled questions, they have no interest in what one has to say.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I have said again and again-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and I am happy to do so again, in case the Deputy did not hear me when I said it earlier, that I recognise the huge contribution public servants make in classrooms-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and offices, the Garda-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I recognise that again and again. Our ability to restore their wages and to increase them over time does depend on the future ability of the State to pay for that.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The annual cost to the State of all the measures the Deputies are asking me to repeal is more than €2 billion.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 24, 25, 29, 39 and 53 togther. I have already touched on some of the points regarding the justification for renewal of the legislation. I will not read the text of my reply again because the Deputy is already familiar with it, and I will not waste his time and the time of those in the Gallery by not responding to the questions. On the particular point...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy accused me of acting in bad faith. If I stood up in the House and said the negotiations and discussions were not on the way he would condemn me for that, as he has done in the past. I am now confirming that the discussions began yesterday. The Deputy used a crucial phrase in saying that the embargo was gone. We now have the ability to hire more public servants to take on...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: Now, through the Lansdowne Road agreement, we will honour the agreement we have with them. As I said, we began discussions with representatives of teachers yesterday.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I did answer Deputy Boyd Barrett’s question. I laid out very clearly the reasons why I believe the maintenance of the legislation is needed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I outlined the reasons for that very clearly and I am sure I will be debating them with the Deputy later on and I believe also on Friday. The full cost of repealing all the FEMPI measures is €2.2 billion. The challenge for me is that if I consider the issues the Deputy raises regularly with me - the need for housing, for more investment in our health services, bringing more people...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----while meeting all of the needs that the Deputy raises regularly with me because he is right to raise those issues.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I have outlined the rationale for this. I have always made very clear my appreciation for the huge contribution the public service has made to our country at a time of great difficulty but amidst the anger the Deputy has articulated let us also acknowledge two other points about what is happening in our public services, first, over the past two years we have over 18,000 more public servants,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----which are needed and which have been accepted by the majority of unions in our State.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: Not only do we have a plan, but we have a plan that has been accepted by 280,000 public servants in 23 unions. The reality is that if I was adopting a different approach and looking to dismantle the Lansdowne Road agreement, Deputy Cullinane would be in the House criticising me for doing that and for not keeping faith with the 280,000 people in those unions who are part of the agreement. ...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: We have always been very clear that the benefits of an agreement have to accrue to those who are part of the agreement. If I was to use a different approach, the Deputy would again be criticising me for doing it. I will now turn to the position in relation to new entrants who joined the public service during the crisis. I have already indicated to Deputy Cullinane that my Department has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: Of course, the cost of that will be subject to our Estimates process but most obviously will be subject to the nature of the agreement.