A public demonstration will take place at Dublin City Hall at 5pm on Monday 7^th April  to protest against HSE plans to remove Dublin ambulance services from the Dublin fire brigade. IMPACT says the proposal is unnecessary given the excellent and efficient service already provided by the fire service.

The Labour Court has said it will not award backdated incremental credit in cases where long-term acting positions are regularised.

IMPACT moved quickly to expose the risks inherent in health minister James Reilly’s plans for universal health insurance after he published a white paper on the proposals on Wednesday (2^nd April).

IMPACT has welcomed a Government decision to extend the retirement grace period, set out in the Haddington Road agreement, until 30^th June 2015.

Driver testers throughout the country say they were warmly supported by members of the public when they took to the picket lines for a half-day strike on Wednesday (2^nd April) in a dispute over outsourcing. The union says that further industrial action remains a possibility if management continues its refusal to engage on the issues in dispute.