The Croke Park Agreement, formally known as the "Public Service Agreement 2010-2014", is an agreement between the

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and various public sector unions and representative organisations. It is named after

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, a large sporting arena with conference facilities in

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, where related negotiations took place.

Background

The Irish government's 2009 emergency budget and 2010 budget imposed pay cuts on a range of public sector workers. A number of strike actions followed. The agreement, which was formally titled "The Public Service Agreement 2010-2014", was signed on 6 June 2010 by

ICTU The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (often abbreviated to just Congress or ICTU), formed in 1959 by the merger of the Irish Trades Union Congress (founded in 1894) and the Congress of Irish Unions (founded in 1945), is a national trade union centr ...

. Against a background of layoffs and pay cuts in the private sector, the government agreed not to impose public sector layoffs or further public sector pay cuts. In return the public sector unions agreed to call no industrial action, and to cooperate on wide scale reforms of the public sector aimed at increasing efficiency, flexibility and redeployment and at reducing cost and headcount. According to the implementation body, as of March 2012, headcount had been reduced by 28,000 and the annual pay bill had been reduced by €3.1 billion. Over 7,000 public servants were reportedly redeployed.{{Cite web , url=http://implementationbody.gov.ie/redeployment/ , website = implementationbody.gov.ie , title=Redeployment , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028175439/http://implementationbody.gov.ie/redeployment/ , archive-date=28 October 2012 , url-status=dead

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External links

Full text of the Public Service Agreement 2010–2014 (Croke Park Agreement)
2010 in Irish politics Economic history of Ireland Croke Park

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