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2009

Frontline Alliance asks TDs to state position on McCarthy cuts to services

Date Released: 14 Nov 2009

Frontline Alliance Questionnaire to Dail Deputies asks them to state position on cutbacks recommended by McCarthy in the public services.

The following letter from the 24/7 Frontline Services Alliance was sent to Dail Deputies yesterday asking them to state their position on the cutbacks in frontline services recommended by Colm McCarthy and his team.

Delegations of Alliance members will also begin their canvass of TDs clinics today. A copy of the Questionnaire document is attached to this email.


To:      All T.D.s

From:  24/7 Front Line Services Alliance

Re:      The McCarthy Report – 24/7 Front Line Services Alliance Questionnaire

Dear Deputy,

As you will know, the 24/7 Frontline Services Alliance is a collective group of Trade Unions/Staff Associations which was formed following the publication of The McCarthy Report (An Bord Snip Nua).

The Alliance consists of the following Trade Unions/Staff Associations:

  • Association of Garda Sergeants & Inspectors
  • Garda Representative Association
  • Irish Nurses Organisation
  • Prison Officers Association
  • Psychiatric Nurses Association
  • SIPTU

It is the collective view of the Alliance that the implementation of the recommendations in the McCarthy Report, would cause serious damage to the provision of essential public services in both urban and rural communities.

In addition, this Report, despite it not being in its terms of reference, also makes recommendations with regard to long standing arrangements concerning allowances and premium payments paid to staff who are obliged to provide a 24/7 service, which, if implemented, would have a very serious negative impact upon the income of these essential dedicated staff.

Against this background the Alliance has decided to initiate a national canvass of all TDs, in order to establish their views on four specific areas of the McCarthy Report.  Over the coming days, members, of the Alliance, will seek to meet with you, in your clinics, in order to establish your views on these very important issues.

In addition to meeting with our members, who will visit you directly, we would be most grateful if you would fill out the attached questionnaire and let us have your reply no later than lunchtime next Tuesday, November 17, 2009.  Please forward completed questionnaires to des@pna.ie.

It is our intention to collate all of the replies received, from our public representatives, and make them known to all of the members in the Alliance, who number in excess of 125,000 frontline essential public servants. Thank you, in advance, for your co-operation on this matter and we look forward to hearing from you in the very near future.

Yours sincerely,

Des Kavanagh, Psychiatric Nurses Association, Chairman 24/7 Alliance

Joe Dirwan, Association of Garda Sergeants & Inspectors

P.J. Stone, Garda Representative Association

Liam Doran, Irish Nurses Organisation

Eugene Dennehy, Prison Officers Association

Paul Bell, SIPTU





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