Garda Commissioner and four Garda associations set to meet in Garda HQ on Friday
The four Garda associations and senior management are due to meet again on Friday. The GRA says it has a mandate not to undertake any negotiations until Garda Commissioner Drew Harris defers the pre-pandemic rosters. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
The rank and file gardaí are set to refuse to volunteer for overtime for the next four Tuesdays, including next week when violent protests are anticipated on budget day outside Dáil Eireann, and on Halloween, the last Tuesday of the month. Mr Harris on Wednesday held separate meetings with the Association of Garda Superintendents and the Association of Chief Superintendents. On Thursday, he met with the GRA in the morning and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors in the afternoon. Those four sessions were aimed at setting out how substantive negotiations – involving all four associations and Garda management – might be held towards resolving the rosters dispute.
Whether any middle ground can be reached on the November 6th deadline, which the GRA has described as a “precondition” to substantive talks towards formulating completely new rosters, remains to be seen. Sources said it was possible some of the Garda force might remain on the pandemic rosters beyond November 6th, with other parts of the workforce returning to the pre-pandemic rosters on that date.
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