# croke-park-2 - Friday 20 September, 2013
The TUI’s General Secretary said members had accepted the public sector pay deal reluctantly, but that in this case it was the “lesser of two evils”.
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# croke-park-2 - Saturday 27 July, 2013
The group will march to the headquarters of the ICTU in Parnell Square from the Garden of Remembrance today at 2pm.
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# croke-park-2 - Friday 28 June, 2013
The Association of Higher and Civil Public Servants has voted 64 to 36 per cent to back the agreement.
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# croke-park-2 - Friday 24 May, 2013
Negotiations have “concluded” on the Haddington Road deal, said the junior finance minister, adding less favourable conditions will apply to those unions who reject it.
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# croke-park-2 - Monday 20 May, 2013
The Irish Federation of University Teachers said it was up to the official side to prove that talks on a new pay deal are not just an attempt to persuade people to accept proposals that have already been rejected.
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# croke-park-2 - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
Brendan Howlin says the Government will accept pay deals with individual unions if an overall deal is impossible.
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# croke-park-2 - Monday 13 May, 2013
The LRC has agreed amendments to the increment freeze for higher earners, while extended working weeks will be delayed.
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UNITE says trying to cut the public pay bill will shrink the economy – so the proposed savings should be invested instead.
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As he prepares for Kieran Mulvey to sound the death knell on pay talks, Brendan Howlin says national solvency is good for everyone.
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# croke-park-2 - Sunday 12 May, 2013
Jack O’Connor says he is becoming optimistic that there could yet be progress on a replacement to the Croke Park 2 deal.
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The Minister for Social Protection says she is “hopeful” a deal can be reached with unions ahead of tomorrow’s deadline.
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# croke-park-2 - Friday 10 May, 2013
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The public expenditure minister tells TheJournal.ie that some unions would need a dramatic U-turn – and that the next option is negotiating with unions on an individual basis.
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# croke-park-2 - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
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The government is seeking to cut public sector pay by €300 million this year and hopes for a negotiated settlement with trade unions by next week.
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# croke-park-2 - Sunday 5 May, 2013
A former IMF head of the mission for Ireland has said an entire reliance on austerity was not the right move – yet we’re still following that road. David Cronin asks why.
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# croke-park-2 - Friday 3 May, 2013
The Prison Officers Association says members need special training to deal with underage inmates – and they don’t get it.
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# croke-park-2 - Friday 26 April, 2013
The Civil Public and Services Union’s annual conference will discuss how to act now that Croke Park 2 has been rejected.
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You can’t spend money you don’t have, writes Seán Murphy, who says Jack O’Connor’s proposal to use the €1 billion promissory note savings and taxing the wealthy is not a viable solution.
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# croke-park-2 - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
Enda Kenny says workers rejected the Croke Park 2 deal knowing it would have protected them against mandatory redundancies.
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Opposition parties say Brendan Howlin shouldn’t have compiled Budget figures assuming that Croke Park 2 would be accepted.
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# croke-park-2 - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Jack O’Connor says using the €1 billion annual savings, and a higher tax rate on high earners, can avoid wide public strikes.
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# croke-park-2 - Saturday 20 April, 2013
We have been treating nurses and gardai as equal in importance to receptionists and quango directors, they are not equal in importance, writes Aaron McKenna.
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# croke-park-2 - 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-2 - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
The Justice Minister also said that recruitment would now have to be delayed because there must be funds to pay for them.
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Enda Kenny says the outcome of the Croke Park 2 vote doesn’t change the Government’s need to cut public payroll costs.
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# croke-park-2 - Tuesday 16 April, 2013
The Junior Minister said that those arguing for a No vote are “arguing for the unknown”.
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# croke-park-2 - Monday 15 April, 2013
Earlier, two unions representing builders and plasterers both said that the deal would offer job security for members and voted in favour of it.
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Cuts to teachers’ salaries and increased taxation have left some of my colleagues just making ends meet, writes Carmel Hume.
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# croke-park-2 - Friday 12 April, 2013
The union, which represents engineering and electrical workers, is the third to vote against the deal.
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# croke-park-2 - Thursday 11 April, 2013
Minister Brendan Howlin ha said that it is “dishonest” to say that there are no consequences arising from a ‘no’ vote.
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# croke-park-2 - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
The Fiscal Advisory Council recommends sticking to plans for another €5.1bn in cuts over two years – even though we’re on course to be well ahead of the EU’s deficit targets.
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# croke-park-2 - Tuesday 9 April, 2013
The equality audit found that changes to working hours and work sharing arrangements would disproportionately affect female public sector workers.
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# croke-park-2 - Thursday 4 April, 2013
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland is balloting over a strike if its members, who have rejected the deal, are bound by it anyway.
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# croke-park-2 - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland also proposed the withdrawal of goodwill tasks like supervision duties.
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# croke-park-2 - Tuesday 26 March, 2013
Speaking at the AGSI’s annual conference, Martin Callinan said that gardaí are “not immune” from the cuts to public expenditure.
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