Brendan Howlin hopes unions will adopt the Haddington Road agreement, to cut public pay by €1 billion by 2015.

Brendan Howlin hopes unions will adopt the Haddington Road agreement, to cut public pay by €1 billion by 2015.

THE FULL TEXT of the revised public sector pay deal has been published this afternoon.

The ‘Haddington Road Agreement’ – the proposed successor to the Croke Park Deal – includes a series of appendices to govern pay for individual sectors, including prison workers, teachers, health workers, Gardaí and the Defence Forces.

The terms of the agreement are to reduce the public pay bill by €1 billion by 2015, though it does not include any specific guarantee that the pay bill for 2013 will be reduced by €300 million as the government had wished.

The full agreement can be read here, but here’s a quick guide to what’s in the proposals: