Government wants to move relevant staff from councils to water utility firm by 2021
He said the union’s “big fight” was likely to centre on “ensuring the future of local government was preserved when they take away 25 to 30 per cent of its funding stream” which comes from payments for water.Mr Nolan said that in the agreement to go into talks with the Government on its transformation plans for Irish Water there was an assurance that “there would be no compulsory conscription of local authority workers to any single [water] entity”.
However, he said the union believed that all 30,000 employees in local authorities were vulnerable either from the impact of the Government proposals on direct employment or from the impact on the finances of local councils. Mr Nolan said the union had campaigned strongly against the establishment of Irish Water in the first place in 2010. Forsa would “not stand for water being privatised”.
Gary Smith, a Forsa delegate from Mayo, said that “this [mess] was not caused by us, we warned against it, and we will not be victims of it”.
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