“Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the savings that would be made if there was an annual salary cap of €100,000 applied to the wages of all teaching staff, third level lecturers and all other personnel employed by his Department …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann Written Answers, 21 May]
“The revised Croke Park II proposals do not just represent a ‘tweaking’ of the deal rejected last month. Neither are they a whole new blueprint for reducing the State’s paybill drawn up on a blank sheet of paper ….” (more)
[Martin Wall, Irish Times, 22 May]
“Brendan Howlin must show a clear pathway as to how savings will be achieved over the next two years. When EU-IMF troika officials have talked privately about how the Government has been faring on its bailout programme, they have borrowed a phrase used by management consultant Eddie Molloy: ‘implementation deficit disorder’ …” (more)
[Harry McGee, Irish Times, 21 May]
“Talks on a revised public sector pay agreement at the Labour Relations Commission later today amid fresh doubts over the Government’s savings target …” (more)
[Martin Wall, Irish Times, 20 May]
“The indications given yesterday by Minister of State Brian Hayes that the Government may not secure €300 million in savings it was seeking this year from the public service pay and pensions bill would represent a major climbdown if it comes to pass …” (more)
[Martin Wall, Irish Times, 20 May]
“Minister of State Brian Hayes has given the Government’s first public indication that it may not generate €300 million in savings on the public service pay and pensions bill this year under talks on a revision to the Croke Park II agreement …” (more)
[Martin Wall, Irish Times, 19 May]
“An overview of what has been agreed so far during negotiations on a new public sector pay deal …” (more)
[Irish Times, 13 May]
“Hopes for agreement on the Croke Park II package of public sector pay cuts were revived yesterday as last-minute talks continued with unions. It is understood agreement has been reached in principle with garda groups …” (more)
[Caroline O’Doherty and Shaun Connolly, Irish Examiner, 13 May]
“There have been significant breakthroughs in the Government’s bid to secure reductions in its pay bill by agreement with a number of trade unions. Last night the Government revised key elements of its original proposals regarding pay cuts and freezing increments for higher earners …” (more)
[Martin Wall, Irish Times, 13 May]
“The Government fears that the Bus Eireann strike, which has already left thousands stranded, will motivate workers across the public sector to mount industrial action …” (more)
[Allison Bray and Michael Brennan, Independent, 13 May]
“On Sunday 12 May 2013 the LRC provided the relevant public service unions including the teacher unions with a briefing on the application of the pay cut proposed for those earning between 65k and 100k …” (more)
[Teachers' Union of Ireland, 12 May]
“The Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants also warned private sector workers that once the ‘slashing’ of pay, terms and conditions had been completed in the public sector, it would be used as a model by private sector employers to ‘dumb down’ their pay and conditions …” (more)
[Marie O'Halloran, Irish Times, 11 May]
“Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin has signalled it will be ‘very difficult’ to get a deal over the line with all unions on the public pay bill by Monday …” (more)
[Juno McEnroe, Irish Examiner, 11 May]
“Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No 319 of 16 April 2013, if he will confirm that his Department did not calculate the specific reduction of GDP growth directly attributed to the proposed Croke Park 2 cuts to public sector pay and pension of €1 billion between 2013 and 2015 …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann Written Answers, 9 May]
“Health sector workers belonging to the IMPACT trade union have pledged to ballot for industrial action if the Government imposes changes to their pay and conditions worse than those agreed under the Croke Park II proposals …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 9 May]
“Nurses have voted for industrial action up to and including a strike at a union conference today with one delegate comparing the Government to the Taliban …” (more)
[Greg Harkin and Caroline Crawford, Independent, 9 May]
“Education Minister Ruairi Quinn says the Government has made no decision yet on imposing public sector pay cuts if no Croke Park II deal is struck …” (more)
[Fionnan Sheahan, Independent, 8 May]
“The Government has begun taking advice from the Attorney General on options for legislation to impose public sector pay cuts if there is no Croke Park II deal …” (more)
[Fionnan Sheahan and Michael Brennan, Independent, 8 May]
“Tuesday April 16, 2013. Finally, a good day to be an Irish Trade Unionist. Even better, a good day to be a member of a teachers union. It was fitting that the message that cutting wages reduces spending power and weakens the economy came from workers …” (more)
[levdavidovic, 7 May]
“The consensus on the recent A$2.3 billion funding cuts to the tertiary sector is they will do more harm than good …” (more)
[Nikki Sullivan, The Conversation, 6 May]
