Public Service unions are continuing to consider their positions on the Croke Park proposals aimed at reducing the public sector pay bill by an additional €1 billion over the next three years.
The individual executives of IMPACT, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, the Civil Public and Services Union and the Garda Representative Association are meeting today.
The leadership of the 24/7 Frontline Alliance will meet at Croke Park later this afternoon, to formulate a coordinated strategy of opposition to the Government's proposals which include pay cuts for top earners, additional hours for no extra pay, and reductions in allowances and premium payments.
The Frontline Alliance represents around 70,000 state employees working 24/7 rosters including nurses, gardai and other emergency staff.
Three unions have already said they will recommend rejection of the proposed deal: the Assocation of Higher Civil and Public Servants, the Teachers Union of Ireland and the Irish Federtion of University Teachers.
The National Executive Council of the country's largest union SIPTU will meet next week to decide its stance.
Officials of the Irish Medical Organisation, who walked out of the negotiations on Sunday night, will brief its executive on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Government sources remain adamant that unions which reject the proposals will lose the benefits that apply under the agreement, including the guarantee of no compulsory redundancies.
TUI General Secretary John MacGabhann said a growing number of their membership comprises people on very low pay and the agreement would "punish" them.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said the agreement would take some of the money that was available through substitution and supervision to members who are working part-time.
Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn has said he will not be getting involved in teachers' unions discussions on the deal.
Mr Quinn said that reducing the public sector pay bill was not "easy or pleasant".
However, he said the Government had to make reductions as they could not continue to borrow at the level they had been.
The minister said it was up to the unions to ask themselves what might happen if the deal was rejected, and it was up to them to see what alternatives there may or may not be.
The largest civil service union, the Civil Public and Services Union, also said it would be recommending rejection.
CPSU Deputy Secretary Derek Mullen said his members had nothing more to give.
He said the longer working week amounted to a 6% pay cut and the incremental freeze was another 1% or 2% cut, which was too much for workers taking home €400 a week.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said that agreeing the proposed Croke Park extension deal would be an international signal that Ireland was determined to fix its economic problems.
Addressing an IBEC conference in Dublin, Mr Kenny said he felt the contribution from the public sector payroll was "absolutely fair".
He said implementing these savings would be "another big step on the road to economic recovery".
He told the conference that the pay and pensions bill accounts for 35% of total public spending.
"In the context of the additional €3bn in spending cuts required by 2015, this contribution from payroll is absolutely fair.
"Implementing these savings by agreement with public service staff...would send out a signal to the world that the Irish people are determined to fix our economic problems and restore the country to prosperity and full employment," he said.
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