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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Horse Racing Ireland Staff (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I refer to my replies to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 28045/16 of 3 October 2016 and 30936/16 of 19 October 2016.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Good Friday Agreement (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 131 and 132 together. Ireland and the UK are currently partners in three EU-funded cross-border Cooperation Programmes with a total value of €650 million over the period 2014-2020: - PEACE Programme - €269 million; - Ireland/Northern Ireland/Scotland INTERREG Programme - €282 million; - Ireland/Wales Programme - €99 million. These...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lansdowne Road Agreement Implementation (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government is fully committed to implementing the Lansdowne Road Agreement and will continue, across the coming weeks, to work with all stakeholders to ensure the continuation of a collective pay policy framework that meets the needs of our public servants and safeguards our economy into the future.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lansdowne Road Agreement Implementation (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Lansdowne Road Agreeement is a Collective Agreement between the Government and public service employers with  the Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) and other associations representing public servants. There are well established formal and informal stuctures in place to address the implementation of the terms of the Agreement. Where...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies Establishment (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I have no plans for re-establishing an empoyer labour conference. However, the Labour Employer Economic Forum (LEEF) has been established and met on the 5th of October.  The meeting was chaired by An Taoiseach and attended by the sponsoring Ministers of Public Expenditure and Reform, Finance and Jobs Enterprise and Innovation with representatives of employers and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Social Partnership Meetings (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I have no plans for re-establishing social partnership or a renewed form of social dialogue at this time.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Meetings (23 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government strongly supports the Lansdowne Road Agreement as the centrepiece of public pay policy noting that the Labour Court's recommendation was explicitly made within that framework.  However, the wider implications of the recommendation in relation to the continued operation of the Lansdowne Road Agreement as it applies to all public servants across the public...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The Lansdowne Road agreement is a collective agreement between the Government and public service employers with the public services committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and other associations representing public servants. The agreement provides for a sustainable adjustment of the existing measures under the financial emergency measures legislation. The terms of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I have met the public services committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions on one occasion since the issuing of the Labour Court recommendation. My officials have been in contact with the representatives and met them on at least two occasions since. With regard to the discussions, the representatives have made two key points publicly. They have said they want the kinds of benefit that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: What was the Deputy's first question?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: All of the discussions to date have been on processes concerning the future of the Lansdowne Road agreement. I am not in a position to give the Deputy a cost or a proposal ICTU might make to me in the future. Overall, the cost of any adjustment to the Lansdowne Road agreement per month is between €25 million and €35 million. On the Deputy's questions about An Garda...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: The 10% reductions in starting pay for certain new entrants were introduced by the then Government in January 2011 as part of the national recovery plan in order to reduce the public service pay bill. Terms and conditions of employment for public servants are also set by reference to legislation, including the FEMPI Acts, and through negotiation and agreement under collective agreements such...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I take seriously what unions state about matters. Let me quote a union leader who spoke about this matter:Teachers are feeling they are being taken for granted, that their goodwill is being exploited and that in the face of ever increasing workloads they are holding together a system which is underfunded and under-resourced. None of this is being recognised. This was said by the INTO's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: That shows the difference in approach to politics between the Deputy and me. I legitimately respond with facts about what is happening elsewhere-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: -----but the Deputy's best retort is a mixture of interruptions and allegations that I do not care.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Sinn Féin does not have a monopoly of caring about issues of equality and fairness. The Deputy does not have a monopoly of caring about issues-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: -----that people within public services have to face and of the desire to do so fairly. Of course, I care about fairness. Of course, I want to deliver equality-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: -----but I also have a duty to deal with other issues, such as how to fund and provide the kind of housing that Sinn Féin constantly and correctly highlights in the Chamber and how to put in place the kind of funding that we need to support our hospitals and primary care centres. These are also issues of equality and fairness. All of it must be funded out of the money that is available...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: I can make these points and put that argument to Sinn Féin and the Deputy while recognising a presumption of good faith on his behalf. It is just a pity that Sinn Féin cannot do the same for others.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Service Pay Commission Establishment (24 Nov 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: On 18 October at the conclusion of a period of consultation with stakeholders in the Lansdowne Road agreement, the Government approved the establishment of the PSPC to advise it on public service pay. For its initial report, the commission will be asked to consider the evolution of pay trends in the public and private sectors based on published data and a comparison of pay rates for...