Bank deals ‘make pay pact a hard sell’

THE broker of the Croke Park Agreement said multi-million euro awards to bankers are making it harder to get the public service deal adopted.

Labour Relations Commission chief executive Kieran Mulvey will, over the next few days, receive requests for clarifications on some issues agreed at Croke Park.

However, even without those assurances, he said trade unions would find it hard to sell the deal given the “venality” of the banks in recent months.