Debate on public sector pay ...

SIPTU's Manus O'Riordan - writing in the Irish Independent last week - noted that: "In the three years to December 2008, the money values of average public sector earnings increased by 11.3pc, as against 10.9pc for manual workers in industry -- essentially the same rate of increase for each, and both in turn being completely offset by the 11.0pc increase in the Consumer Price Index over the same three-year period."

Predictably, Ed Walsh - writing in yesterday's Sunday Business Post - takes a different tack: "The once-useful social partnership process transformed itself into a damaging mechanism that has fostered a bloated public sector and pay scales that bear no relationship to those of our competitors".

PE's own Sli Eile has deconstructed public sector pay figures here and here.

Any comments?

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