IMPACT members’ ebulletin - General Election Special
LANSDOWNE ROAD AGREEMENT
We asked the parties: Will your party honour the terms of the Lansdowne Road Agreement, including the partial restoration of public sector pay, no compulsory redundancies and the improved protections on outsourcing? The parties replied:
“Yes” Fine Gael also said that its “long term economic plan includes a provision to accommodate the costs of a new public sector pay agreement”
“Yes” Labour also said it would “negotiate a new public sector pay deal in 2018 … to deal with remaining unresolved issues arising from the FEMPI acts”
“Yes” Fianna Fáil also said that it would “repeal FEMPI over the next 2 years and return to normal industrial relations mechanisms, ensure that improvements in take home pay for public servants are in line with general wage improvements, and use the ESRI to verify costs of pay and pension measures”
“We will honour the terms of the Lansdowne Road Agreement, but we will seek reductions in higher pay (in excess of €100,000)” Sinn Féin has “set aside a sum for future pay agreements”.
“We will honour and exceed those terms”
“Yes”
Renua Ireland declined to answer directly if the party would honour the terms of the Lansdowne Road Agreement
