Public service unions want talks as soon as possible

Public service unions want talks on pay recovery in the sector to start as soon as possible after the Public Service Pay Commission “provided a good summary of the sacrifices public servants made in the years following the economic crash”.

A spokesman for the public services committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions said: “It is now time to move swiftly into negotiations with a view to accelerating pay recovery for workers whose incomes are significantly lower than they were eight years ago.

"Our priorities in the talks will be to restore incomes as quickly as is sustainably possible and to protect the value of retirement incomes.”