Pay Naval Service ‘heroes’ their proper entitlements, say representatives

The Defence Forces’ largest representative organisation is to demand Minister Simon Coveney pay the Naval Service “heroes” who have rescued thousands of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea their proper entitlements.

PDforra (Permanent Defence Forces Other Ranks’ Representative Association) will also demand that the 10% cut in wages imposed on new recruits post-2013 be reversed and new sick pay entitlement reductions introduced in the civil service not enforced on its members.

The demands will be made at the association’s three-day annual conference which opens in Galway today.