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Section 13 Equal Opportunities 90 Section 14 Workplace Learning 92 Section 15 Health and Safety at Work 93 Section 16 Hidden Economy Monitoring Group 93 Section 17 Pensions 93 Section 18 Migrant Workers 94 Public Service Pay and Related Issues 97 Section 19 Public Service Pay 98 Delivering Quality Public Services 103 Section 20 Commitment to Modernisation 104 Section 21 Modernisation and Flexibility 108 Section 22 Civil Service 110 Section 23 Health Service 115 Section 24 Education Sector 119 Section 25 Local Government Sector 125 Section 26 Performance Verification 127 Glossary of Abbreviations Used 130 Contents Sustaining Progress 5
Overview Sustaining Progress 6 Overview Background The negotiations on a new National Agreement were formally launched on 31 October, 2002. The National Economic and Social Council (NESC) Strategy Report, An Investment in Quality: Services, Inclusion and Enterprise provided a background for the negotiations. The parties to the negotiations included the Government, employers, trade unions, farming bodies and the community and voluntary sector as follows: Irish Business and Employers’ Confederation (IBEC), Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), Construction Industry Federation (CIF), Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association (ICMSA), Irish Co-Operative Organisation Society Ltd. (ICOS), Macra na Feirme, Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU), Congress Centres for the Unemployed, The Community Platform1 , Conference of Religious of Ireland (CORI), National Womens’ Council of Ireland (NWCI), National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI), Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, Protestant Aid, Small Firms’ Association (SFA), Irish Exporters’ Association (IEA), Irish Tourist Industry Confederation (ITIC) and Chambers of Commerce of Ireland (CCI). The negotiations have resulted in Sustaining Progress, covering a wide range of issues as set out below. Sustaining Progress focuses on what is necessary to make the economy: ■ Competitive in a changing world; ■ Environmentally sustainable; ■ Efficient through finding and implementing appropriate market and regulatory regimes in different areas; and ■ Socially acceptable. The shared overall goal of the new Agreement covering the period 2003-2005 is to continue progress towards the realisation of the NESC vision for Irish society in a period of considerable uncertainty, and to do this by sustaining economic growth and maintaining high levels of employment and securing living standards for all, while strengthening the economy’s competitiveness and thereby its capacity to resume trend growth in more favourable international conditions. 1 Currently there are 26 participant organisations in the community platform: - Age Action Ireland, Community Action Network, Community Workers Co-op, European Anti-Poverty Network, Forum of People with Disabilities, Gay and Lesbian Network, Irish Association of Older People, Irish Commission for Prisoners Overseas, Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed, Irish Penal Reform Trust, Irish Refugee Council, Irish Rural Link, Irish Traveller Movement, National Adult Literacy Agency, National Network of Women’s Refuges and Support Services, National Traveller Women’s Forum, National Women’s Council of Ireland, One Parent Exchange and Network, Pavee Point Travellers Centre, Rape Crisis Network Ireland, Simon Communities of Ireland, Society of St Vincent de Paul, Threshold, Voluntary Drug Treatment Network, Vincentian Partnership for Justice, Women’s Aid.
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