Protect workers under Croke Park II: unions

Public service unions have warned the Government that they will struggle to sell further cuts to any part of members’ pay to their members under Croke Park II.

As expected, at the first meeting between the two sides to discuss how to achieve a further €1bn in savings by 2015, the Government stopped short of outlining how those saving would be achieved.

Instead, officials explained the rationale for seeking the extra savings on top of the €3.3bn due to emerge from the first Croke Park Agreement.