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Tuesday 21 March 2023 Dublin: 10°C

# Haddington Road

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# Gardaí
Man, 51, seriously assaulted on busy Dublin road after rugby match
A group of males assaulted the man on Haddington Road on Sunday.
# Renewed Appeal
'The pain is getting more difficult to bear': New appeal on 20th anniversary of Trevor Deely's disappearance
Gardaí continue to appeal for information that may help locate Trevor Deely.
# misgivings
Labour Court overturns €39k payout for worker despite HSE's 'entirely unsatisfactory approach'
The Labour Court was scathing in its assessment of how the HSE handles such cases.
# Mo Money Mo Problems
Sinn Féin TDs won't be getting any pay increase
Even if they’re given one they will refuse it, the party says.
# Midnight oil
Progress reported after a late, late night at the public sector pay talks
The exact details are still being hammered out.
# school of hard knocks
Young teachers are facing an 'increasingly bleak reality'
Unions say half of all teachers under 30 are now on part-time work arrangements.
# Haddington Road
Public sector workers shouldn't expect a pay rise this year
The Taoiseach has said economic recovery will be a priority in any talks about wage increases.
# Haddington Road
Scrapping rent allowance for garda recruits will 'create friction' in ranks
The GRA said the withdrawal of the allowance would essentially be a pay cut for recruits.
# not even close
Gardaí €13 million off target for Haddington Road savings
There was also a similar shortfall last year, with just €9 million of the projected €15 million in savings achieved.
# Oireachtas agenda
How are senior gardaí appointed and removed from their jobs?
The Technical Group will put forward a Bill today that would update the current process.
# Tit for tat
INMO say proposals 'seriously compromise patient safety'. 'Scaremongering' says James Reilly
The health minister also cast doubts on the savings targets.
# Haddington Road
INMO and HSE at odds over whether additional savings of €80m are being sought
The INMO says the savings are being sought – the HSE says this is incorrect.
# Money Back
Senior civil servants want their pay cuts reversed, and they've made it their union's "primary goal"
As part of the three-year Haddington Road Agreement, salaries above €65,000 that were cut were due to be restored when it expired.
# Gardaí
Guns, handcuffs and summer shirts: Here's what they'll be talking about at the GRA conference
Alan Shatter won’t be there because he wasn’t invited, but we were so here are some of the issues we’ll be keeping an eye on.
# Pay Cuts
TUI chief: Woe betide the Government if it reneges on Haddington promises
John MacGabhainn’s also calling for the TUI and the ASTI to merge, in order to deal in a more unified way with threats and challenges in the sector.
# budget 2015
Howlin: The HSE are going to live up to savings targets - they have to
The Public Expenditure Minister also said that there could be room in Budget 2015 for tax cuts.
# Economy
Central Bank: The economy is on the up, but inflation remains stubbornly low
Quarterly bulletin finds that drop in unemployment is ‘clearest indicator’ of improving economic fortunes.
# Salaries
Nine minsterial advisers have salaries higher than pay guidelines
A number of ministers explained that their advisers had previously been on much higher pay scales when working in the private sector prior to their appointment in the respective departments.
# teachers vote
Result of ASTI Haddington Road vote expected this evening
In a second vote on the Government pay deal, union leaders have urged secondary teachers to reject it.
# Nurses
"Chickens coming home to roost" as HSE searches for foreign specialist nurses
The INMO says that Irish nurses were “allowed emigrate” rather than being trained.
# Industrial Action
Payment for supervision and substitution to stop in 2014 if ASTI reject Haddington deal
The ASTI warns this will lead to a ‘serious escalation’ of the current industrial dispute in schools.
# Haddington Road
ASTI promises "strong action" if teachers are made redundant
Nearly 50 posts have been identified as being over the official quota and could be targeted for redundancy, but the ASTI says it will take action if members are hit.
# Teachers
ASTI recommends members reject Haddington Road deal
The Central Executive Committee decided today that the Haddington Road proposals should be put to a members’ vote.
# Haddington Road
Quinn "hopeful" for progress in ASTI dispute as areas of discussion identified
However, the Education Minister said that the “terms and conditions” of the guarantee are not under his control.
# ASTI
Movement in teachers dispute as ASTI to meet department officials tomorrow
The discussions have come about as a result of informal talks that took place between the parties last week.
# Budget 2014
Anti-austerity march calls on unions to support ASTI
Mick O’Reilly of the DCTU said that politics of austerity amounted to a “war on working people’ with the best defence in that war “unflinching solidarity”.
# Industrial Action
ASTI: 'If they impose further changes we will be forced to react'
The ASTI General Secretary Pat King said they won’t be accepting any further cuts.
# Haddington Road
ASTI boss: Teachers' action is "not about pay"
Pat King has said the planned action will affect students only “marginally”. Teachers will withdraw from out-of-hours duties including parent and staff meetings from tomorrow week.
# Teachers
'It's not changeable': Tánaiste and Howlin say no renegotiation of Haddington Road
The two Labour ministers’ comments come in the wake of ASTI members rejecting the public sector pay deal.
# Teachers Strike
ASTI industrial action to begin on 2 October
The union says that it will withdraw from school meetings, in-service training and parent-teacher meetings.
# Haddington Road
IFUT members vote to accept Haddington Road Agreement
The majority of members in the Irish Federation of University Teachers approved the revised public sector pay agreement.
# Teachers
ASTI to discuss industrial action by teachers
In a ballot on Friday, teachers rejected the Haddington Road public sector pay deal and voted in favour of industrial action.
# teaching unions
TUI votes to accept Haddington Road after ASTI members say 'no'
The TUI’s General Secretary said members had accepted the public sector pay deal reluctantly, but that in this case it was the “lesser of two evils”.
# Public Pay
ASTI reject Haddington Road agreement, vote for industrial action
The union representing 17,000 secondary teachers voted by way of a 63 per cent majority to reject the deal.
# Disability cuts
HSE cuts €189,461 from Sunbeam House’s budget
The cuts have resulted in an immediate reduction in transport services for users, affecting 44 users in County Wicklow.
# Public Pay
Another public sector union has voted in favour of Haddington Road
The union represents workers in the Civil Service, An Post, FÁS and other organisations.
# Pay Day
The Taoiseach, Ministers and every TD are having their pay cut today
As are the country’s 292,000 civil servants who are experiencing the first effects of the Haddington Road Agreement in their pay cheques today.
# Public Sector Pay
The Croke Park Agreement saved the taxpayer €1.8 billion
The final report of the public sector pay deal’s implementation body has outlined the savings it achieved.
# Public Pay
Another union votes in favour of Haddington Road deal
The Association of Higher and Civil Public Servants has voted 64 to 36 per cent to back the agreement.