Tag: PDFORRA

I put questions to Minister Coveney – again – about the appalling pay and conditions that our defence forces have to endure, and crucially, why PDFORRA are not permitted to be part of the ICTU where public sector pay is negotiated. I sense a change in attitude, hinted at, if not committed to, by Simon Coveney, with regard to #PDFORRA and the ICTU. His change of tone comes towards the end of this video, from today’s Dáil proceedings. Keep after him lads (and lasses!) !!

Our soldiers and sailors are workers and they have a right to proper recognition of their union, PDFORRA, and to be in ICTU. I asked today in the Dáil why the delay over this. The dithering is not acceptable. The forces are loosing members hand over fist because of bad pay and conditions;we’re loosing the very people we rely on during floods and storms to save our communities. This is not good enough.