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The Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure & Reform, Paschal Donohoe TD, today (Monday) welcomed the decision of the Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to endorse the terms of the recently negotiated extension to the Lansdowne Road Agreement on pay and reform in the public service. The Public Service Stability Agreement will run from January 2018 to end 2020.
Commenting on today’s news, the Minister said: ‘This Agreement, voted on and endorsed by ICTU, achieves the right balance between addressing the legitimate expectations of public service workers for increases in their pay while ensuring that the Government continues to exercise a prudent approach to the overall management of our public finances’.
“I recognise the significant contribution that our public servants and their unions and associations have made to Ireland’s economic recovery. The improvements in pay provided for in this Agreement mark another important step in the gradual normalisation of our collective bargaining approach to pay arrangements in the public service through the process of unwinding the FEMPI legal framework on pay that has been in place for the last number of years.
“At the same time, this Agreement will enable further reform in the way we deliver our public services, improve the sustainability of public service pensions and deliver industrial peace – all of which will play a key role in supporting our country’s further growth over the coming years.”



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