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The Secretary General of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Mr Tom O’Mahony, and the Secretary General of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mr John Murphy, with both the Chief Executive of Ibec, Danny McCoy, and the General Secretary of Congress, David Begg, have this afternoon met with the Expert Panel which was established to carry out an urgent investigation of how a final resolution of the industrial relations issues relating to the Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (IASS) can be secured.

The Expert Panel is immediately contacting the parties to the dispute to schedule meetings with them.

The two Departments, Ibec and Congress reiterated their call to the parties to confirm that they will engage constructively in the process, and called for the proposed industrial action to be deferred, given the disruption it would cause for the travelling public and the serious consequences it could have for all parties.