# croke-park-deal - Today’s News
# croke-park-deal - Thursday 18 April, 2013
The Tánaiste calls for ‘calm, reasoned reflection’ after the Croke Park 2 pay proposals were struck down by public workers.
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# croke-park-deal - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
The Garda Representative Association says the deal now being voted on by the trade union movement is “blatantly unfair” .
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# croke-park-deal - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
Croke Park 2 is a serious reversal of rights won by trade unions over decades. If rejected, it will be the union leaders that will come under question, writes Kieran Allen.
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# croke-park-deal - Sunday 10 March, 2013
New recruits to frontline services in Boston can be paid three times more than what the Irish government has sought to establish as the new starting salary for public service workers. Larry Donnelly discusses the reasons for the disparity in salaries.
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# croke-park-deal - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
The AHCPS which represents more than 2,700 public sector workers says its members have already taken pay reductions of at least 15 per cent.
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# croke-park-deal - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
The cuts are in line with the Labour Relations Commission proposals that emerged from discussions on the Croke Park pay deal.
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# croke-park-deal - Monday 25 February, 2013
The Labour Relations Commission has released details of its proposals that unions will now be asked to vote on.
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ICTU says the deal reached means better protections for public servants than across-the-board pay cuts.
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# croke-park-deal - Monday 18 February, 2013
Unions representing prison workers, hospital staff, ambulance workers and Gardaí attend a major rally in Tallaght.
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# croke-park-deal - Friday 15 February, 2013
The trade union says it can’t consider cutting members’ pay unless it knows what effect the cuts will have on the economy.
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# croke-park-deal - Friday 11 January, 2013
A draft Troika report, obtained by TheJournal.ie, reveals suggestions that the Croke Park Agreement may not go far enough.
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# croke-park-deal - Saturday 15 December, 2012
We’re breaking the hiring freeze to staff our health service – and the new entrants will be taking the pay cuts nobody else wants.
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# croke-park-deal - Sunday 25 November, 2012
Brendan Howlin says talks this week on getting more from the Croke Park Deal will not touch lower pay rates.
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# croke-park-deal - Wednesday 21 November, 2012
The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform plans to meet with public sector unions next week.
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# croke-park-deal - Tuesday 20 November, 2012
Brendan Howlin says depending on how the first talks ago, the parties might start negotiations on a successor to Croke Park.
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# croke-park-deal - Thursday 1 November, 2012
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan and representatives of garda bodies appearing before Public Accounts Committee.
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# croke-park-deal - Sunday 21 October, 2012
Public pay and pensions can’t be touched under Croke Park. So just how much of public spending does that make up?
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# croke-park-deal - Saturday 20 October, 2012
The Public Accounts Committee is to review allowances paid to ministers and others – and could ask for them to be cut.
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# croke-park-deal - Monday 15 October, 2012
One Labour TD described the eight Fine Gael TDs as “belligerent”
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# croke-park-deal - Sunday 14 October, 2012
The Department of Public Expenditure says Croke Park savings don’t include estimates for overheads – hours after Simon Coveney said otherwise.
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Simon Coveney says Department of Finance guidelines for calculating Croke Park savings are not realistic in his case.
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# croke-park-deal - Tuesday 25 September, 2012
Public sector allowances are small fry – but the media storm is a distraction from the real bad news, writes Michael Taft.
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# croke-park-deal - Sunday 23 September, 2012
We’ve asked all of the political parties and a smattering of independents to outline clearly and in detail their position on the Croke Park Agreement on public sector pay and reform. Here is what they said…
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# croke-park-deal - Saturday 15 September, 2012
Public sector workers have seen their average wages rise while others fall – and this can’t continue, writes Keith Redmond.
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# croke-park-deal - Monday 10 September, 2012
Both Pat Rabbitte and Richard Bruton say the current deal runs until 2014 – and the government plans to see it through.
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# croke-park-deal - Sunday 9 September, 2012
Minister of State for Trade and Development, Joe Costello, has insisted the agreement on public sector pay and reform is delivering amid growing calls for it to be re-examined.
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Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has said that negotiations over the extension or renegotiation of the Croke Park Agreement will be needed within the “next six to eight months if not sooner”.
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# croke-park-deal - Friday 27 July, 2012
The Irish Medical Organisation says talks last night on new work practices in the Health Sector were less constructive than hoped.
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# croke-park-deal - Saturday 7 July, 2012
It is a key agreement between government and the public service representatives but just what exactly is the Public Service Agreement, as it is officially known, all about and why does it create so many talking points?
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# croke-park-deal - Thursday 28 June, 2012
The public expenditure minister tells the Dáil that lower-paid public servants will not have their increments cut.
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# croke-park-deal - Sunday 17 June, 2012
The financial advisor and broadcaster said the deal cocooned higher-level public servants and targeted cuts at the most vulnerable.
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# croke-park-deal - Saturday 16 June, 2012
Plus – the latest estimate of the average industrial wage, and how close Spain is being pushed to an international bailout…
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# croke-park-deal - Friday 15 June, 2012
Trade unions are confused by the logic behind Leo Varadkar’s suggestions that some public staff should be laid off.
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# croke-park-deal - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
The Implementation Body for the public service pay deal says savings of €900m have been made between pay and non-pay.
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# croke-park-deal - Friday 13 April, 2012
The Labour leader insisted the agreement on public service pay and pensions was delivering the necessary reforms.
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# croke-park-deal - Tuesday 10 April, 2012
Both the TUI and ASTI say they will consider any cuts to teachers’ allowances as a breach of the Croke Park Agreement.
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# croke-park-deal - Thursday 29 March, 2012
However, Hayes warned that a cultural change was essential for Ireland’s economic recovery.
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# croke-park-deal - Friday 9 March, 2012
The government promised to cut public sector numbers, increase accountability and improve performance. What’s happened?
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# croke-park-deal - Tuesday 17 January, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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A survey carried out by a Fine Gael senator finds that two-thirds of FG and Labour councillors would back amending the deal.
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