Flexible redeployment ‘critical’

FLEXIBLE redeployment of staff will be “critical” to the maintenance of public services as tens of thousands of jobs are cut.

The statement is contained in the latest review of the Croke Park Agreement — the deal between the Government and unions on public service pay and reform.

The agreement pledges no further pay cuts and no compulsory redundancies up to 2014 in return for public servants co-operating with reforms to produce savings.