IBEC calls for social partners summit

EMPLOYERS body IBEC has called for a summit of the social partners in light of the economic crisis — but insisted it is not trying to renegotiate the new national wage agreement.

IBEC director-general Turlough O’Sullivan said the public finances, in particular, and the economy generally were in a “pretty serious situation”.

“You might describe it as a crisis,” he said in an interview with Today FM.