INMO recommends acceptance of pay deal

There was mixed news for the Haddington Road deal yesterday, with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation recommending that it be accepted, and the union representing low- paid civil servants saying it should be rejected.

The INMO had been one of the leading opponents of the Croke Park II document.

However, it said the proposals in the new deal — designed to cut €1bn from the public service pay bill by 2015 — “mitigate the disproportionate and discriminatory elements contained in the earlier proposals that were rejected”.