Public Sector Pay
Dail Éireann — 2026-07-07
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Jack Chambers (FF), Dublin West

I fully share the Deputy's reflection on public servants and the huge role they play in our hospitals, schools and members of An Garda Síochána keeping people safe. That is why we want to a new agreement. As with previous agreements, we want to make sure that it is fair, equitable and ensures a fair deal for workers and rewards them for the work that they do every day on behalf of all of us. There have been exploratory discussions. We want further engagement. My officials remain open to progressing those discussions. We want to ensure that can happen without preconditions. We also want to ensure that any talks can progress and that we can try to reach an agreement that we can accommodate in the context of budget 2027. Having stability, certainty and a planned approach to public service delivery and public service pay has been important in terms of our wider management of the economy. I want to make it clear to any public servant who is watching this that we want to see a new deal and we want to progress those discussions.

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Sitting date: 2026-07-07