Industrial Relations

‘There is time to negotiate’: Justice minister urges resolution in Garda roster row

Helen McEntee encourages GRA and Garda Commissioner to reach compromise without government intervention

Helen McEntee, the Minister for Justice and Drew Harris, the Garda Comssioner. Picture: Leon Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

Helen McEntee, the Minister for Justice, has urged that a solution is found in a dispute between the Garda Commissioner Drew Harris and representative organisations amid escalating industrial action.

Meetings are taking place between Harris and those organisations this week in the standoff over the roster system.

Members of the Garda Representative Association (GRA) have threatened to withdraw their labour if the dispute is not resolved.

This would include declining to work voluntary overtime on ...