Funding Public Service Special Increases
Ahern asked how sanctioned special increases would be funded, noting they were absent from the 1985 estimate; Boland said the question was hypothetical, and Ahern noted the arbitrator’s decision was due on 14 December.
asked the Minister for the Public Service further to the absence from estimated figure circulated for 1985 of any provision for special increases, if he will indicate how he proposes to pay for any such increases if sanctioned by the arbitrator.
Comment on this
This situation envisaged by the Deputy is hypothetical and any reply could only be conjectural and might not be helpful at this stage.