Talks focus on public sector pension reform before moving to key pay issue

GOVERNMENT representatives were last night said to be tabling proposals on the reform of public sector pensions before the talks with the unions move on to the key issue of how reforms will be measured, and the system for the reversal of recent public sector wage cuts.

Before talks resumed at the Croke Park Conference Centre at 7pm last night, Labour Relations Commission chief executive and talks’ facilitator, Kieran Mulvey, said the participants had “brought a lot of the issues a long way”.

He said all sides were now reflecting on their positions “in order to bring the big jigsaw or compendium of issues together”.