Speaking on RTE’s ‘This week’ programme, the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that nurses had technically breached the public service stability agreement when they went on strike.
Varadkar went on to say that if the government remove pay increments from nurses at this time, that it might be provocative and it might make it harder to resolve the dispute.
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The secondary teachers pulled out of the agreement went on strike and as a result they didn’t get the benefits of the pay agreement
“At a certain point we will have to treat the nurses the same as we treat as a secondary school teachers, otherwise it wouldn’t be fair to treat the secondary school teachers to be treated differently to the nurses but are judgement at the moment is that with drawing the benefits of the agreement would be provocative would be an escalation and might make it more difficult to resolve this”
He went onto say that he didn’t think setting up an independent body to examine the nurses pay claims would change anything.
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