At a meeting on June 24th, the executive committee of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) reaffirmed its opposition to the Croke Park proposals on public service pay and reform. It will decide on possible industrial action later in the summer.

The union has said it will not be bound by the decision of the public services committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu) to back the agreement.

TUI general secretary Peter McMenamin said it was the view of his union that “conditions of service should be voted on exclusively by members of the union concerned in an agreement of this nature”.