Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 20 June 2017
395. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to unwind the pay and pension inequality in his annual review of FEMPI measures due before Dáil Éireann by the end of June 2017; his further plans regarding the restoration of pay for teachers and the ending of PSPR in view of the fact that the financial crisis has ended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28411/17]
View answerFollowing publication of the Report by the Public Service Pay Commission, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and public service employers entered into negotiations with public service unions and staff representative associations in order to secure agreement on an extension of the Lansdowne Road Agreement. Following detailed and complex negotiations, facilitated by the Workplace Relations Commission, the terms of a proposed Agreement was commended to the parties by the Workplace Relations Commission. The proposed agreement, which deals with the further orderly unwinding of FEMPI reductions in a manner that is compatible with fiscal constraints, is available on my Department’s website http://www.per.gov.ie/en/government-approves-terms-of-proposed-extension-to-the-lansdowne-road-agreement/
I am obliged under Section 13 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act (FEMPI) 2013 to carry out an annual review of the operation of the FEMPI Acts. My next review and report on the FEMPI legislation is due before the Houses of the Oireachtas before the end of June 2017. My considerations and report, which will encompass all measures provided for under the FEMPI legislation will, inter alia, take into account the current budgetary and economic context and the outcome to the recent public service pay negotiations.
