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Matt Cooper: A one-size-fits-all public sector pay deal no longer makes sense

Unions are seeking flexibility to address issues affecting specific groups of workers

Paschal Donohoe, public expenditure minister, and Kevin Callinan, president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, are jousting publicly about a new public sector pay deal

Pay deals involving the government always get done eventually. This should be remembered as the posturing by ministers and unions intensifies over the coming weeks ...