IBEC calls for recovery plan

EMPLOYERS’ body IBEC has joined calls for the Government to re-activate talks with the social partners on a new economic recovery plan.

Just three days after the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) announced it would organise a strike of up to 500,000 workers on March 30 if the Government did not commence a new talks process, IBEC director general Turlough O’Sullivan said there could no longer be any delay in implementing measures to address the economic crisis.

“The main opposition parties have indicated that they favour a consensus on what needs to be done. They should be taken at their word,” he said.