Lansdowne Road Agreement

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 28 January 2016

Thursday, 28 January 2016

Questions (118, 119)

Seán Kyne

Question:

118. Deputy Seán Kyne asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015, if a non-union public servant working in a sector, where the relevant union has voted against the Lansdowne Road agreement, will be negatively impacted and will not be awarded an increment, and that the operation of the pay scale that applies to such a non-union public servant shall stand suspended until 1 July 2018. [3605/16]

Seán Kyne

Question:

119. Deputy Seán Kyne asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015, if a public servant working in a sector where the relevant trade union has voted against the Lansdowne Road agreement, and who is not a member of the trade union, or who resigns from the union, is outside the agreement. [3606/16]

Written answers

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

I propose to take Questions Nos. 118 and 119 together.

Following the acceptance of the Lansdowne Road Agreement by the Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, I brought forward the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015. That Act made provision for the implementation of the terms of the Agreement for all public servants  regardless of whether some public servants have voted against the terms of the Agreement, or are not members of a union.

The 2015 Act shows that the Government is committed to honouring the terms of the Lansdowne Road Agreement which extended the Public Service Stability Agreement (Haddington Road Agreement) out to September 2018. I remain hopeful that those Unions or Associations who have to date not been in a position to subscribe to the terms of the Lansdowne Road Agreement will do so to enable their members avail of the full benefits of that Agreement.