A Fine Gael Minister will today call for more urgent implementation of the Croke Park agreement. Minister of State for Finance Brian Hayes will argue, in a speech at a business breakfast, that local management in the public sector should now step up the progress of implementation and show a new level of ambition for change.
“Management agendas that were hard won in Croke Park now need to be pursued by sectoral management even where that means that they have to go into a difficult negotiating space,” he said. “Implementation needs to be approached with greater urgency in all sectors. That will also be challenging for their interlocutors on the union side.”
