Ex-courts service chief to monitor public service deal

THE former chief executive of the Irish Courts Service PJ Fitzpatrick is to chair the implementation body which will oversee the Croke Park deal on public service pay and reform.

The body is being established to make sure the terms of the deal are implemented and to assess the value of the savings generated in each sector of the public service.

It will be down to the implementation body to decide in the spring of 2011 whether enough savings have been generated to justify the restoration of pay-scales cut in last December’s budget, for public service workers earning less than €35,000.