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Sunday 29 November 2020
MacSharry acknowledged his comments will not be popular, but he stood over his words yesterday.
You need a PSC to get a MyGovId, and senior civil servants have looking at expanding the services available on it.
Decentralisation was previously brought in by former Minister for Finance Charlie McCreevy in 2003.
The Department of Foreign Affairs was unwilling to make it a requirement.
Minister Paschal Donohoe issued a warning earlier today over reaching a pay deal with nurses.
The majority of requests from clerical officers, who are on the lower end of the civil service pay scale.
The pay boost comes under the Public Service Stability Agreement which aims to restore public servant wages.
Under current rules, those working in the public service must retire from their job at age 65.
The mandatory retirement age for civil servants is to rise from 65 to 70 under new measures.
The statement from the AHCPS comes after a week of criticism of civil servants in the Department of Justice.
The Public Service Pay Commission will soon deliver its report.
Geraghty said that he didn’t want the issue to be a public sector versus private sector divide, but said that their demands were “reasonable”.
The basic salary of a TD had been cut from 92,672 to €87,358 under the terms of the Haddington Road Agreement.
One civil servant had to routinely work through lunch and late in the day to catch up on work.
The figures were released to Sinn Féin finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty.
Public sector workers’ average number of sick days each year is twice that of the private sector according to figures released by the government.
It looks likely the agreement will be accepted though some workers are not at all satisfied with it.
Hitting the gym, Oireachtas Committee meetings and learning languages were all on the agenda.
The public sector employs 288,561 people in Ireland, around 15% of the workforce.
“The private sector people are looking at it with their jaws dropped.”
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
There seems to be a disparity between people’s experiences and what they feel.
That’s according to a new survey that was carried out last year.
The civil servant took leave from work in 1990 and never came back.
So much irrationality is directed at our civil service, including the dangerous notion of privatisation of functions, that the hard work of many decent people is overlooked.
The only effective public sector reform is privatisation.
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While staff in the civil service who do well will be recognised – but not with bonuses.
Unions said the transfer of work had been made without consultation with unions. The board said it has been outsourcing for years.
Senior civil servant Robert Watt called for a debate on making it easier to sack public sector workers at the MacGill Summer School yesterday.
If they were good enough for Moses…
As part of the three-year Haddington Road Agreement, salaries above €65,000 that were cut were due to be restored when it expired.
Unions are calling for pay rises ahead of tax cuts for the general public.
And 63 have been on breaks for over five years.
The government is abolishing a scheme that gave bonus marks to people sitting civil service entrance exams if they speak Irish.
As are the country’s 292,000 civil servants who are experiencing the first effects of the Haddington Road Agreement in their pay cheques today.
The Association of Higher and Civil Public Servants has voted 64 to 36 per cent to back the agreement.
The union says the new proposals don’t address its concerns about the broader economic effect of public pay cuts.
The INMO had rejected the Croke Park II pay deal but has said the new deal is the best available for its members
THE DEATH OF David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader, was announced this morning.
The on-screen character for which he was most famous (voiced by James Earl Jones) is often hailed as the most villainous of all movie bad guys.
But for the day that’s in it, we’re wondering if that’s a fair assessment. Today we’re asking: Who is the greatest movie villain of all time?
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