Howlin: We can’t redeploy everybody

Plans for targeted voluntary redundancy packages for 2,300 public service workers will be brought to Cabinet tomorrow as talks continue on renegotiating Croke Park.

Staff working in health, agriculture, and education will be offered three weeks’ pay for each year of service, as well as statutory entitlement of two weeks’ pay.

Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin, who will present the plans to Cabinet, said it was not sustainable to have workers getting paid who essentially had no job to do and refused to be redeployed.