Minutes of the Partnership Committee Meeting held on Thursday 15th March 2006 Room 130, Library

Attendees:

Management	Non-Union	Trade Unions
Mr M Flanagan	Ms B Molony
Ms.Pauline Corrigan (Chair)	Mr D O’Keeffe	Mr Joe Colley (INPTU)
Prof Peter Clinch		Mr John Dunnion (IFUT)
Ms. Sarah McGrath		Mr Arthur O’Connor (SIPTU)
		Mr G Hayden (Amicus- MSF)
Guest Dr. Kieran Allen		Mr P O’Reilly (Amicus- MSF)
Ms. Anna Noble		Ms Mary Flynn (Chair)
Absent		Ms Helen Gallagher (SIPTU)
Ms. Aishling Kennedy		Mr Tommy Murtagh (SIPTU)
Dr. Ian O'Donnell		Ms Bredagh Moran (AMICUS-MSF
Mr Tony Boucher (TEEU)
Dr Paul Ryan (IFUT)
Dr. Marie Clarke (IFUT)
Ms. Elizabeth Noonan

1 Minutes of the Last Meeting

The minutes were agreed

2 Matters Arising

            Reply from Michael Rafter concerning provision of medical service
          to staff. Aidan Grannell now has the outline of the second Crèche
          confirmed, and forward to Dun Laoghaire Council for planning
          permission.

3 Partnership Training

MF stated there was a recognised need for both management and staff training relating to partnership but to wait to see whether new programmes would be available after the expiry of SP.

4 Draft Final Progress Report

Michael Flanagan explained context required for submission to PVG to receive 2.5 % to relevant grades.

This is only a first draft, a further meeting is required and a date arranged 30^th March 06

If there are changes required from union and non-union members only one representative from each group is required to give this feedback to Michael Flanagan.

There is a summary at the end of the report stating the committees view on the process of the report.

HG Asked if there was agreement on the sick pay scheme. MF stated a meeting in 2004 with SIPTU had agreed a variation of this solution.

KA Would like to open negotiations around performance management. This was the official view of SIPTU and he would also like the results of the pilot scheme.

MF stated if negotiation were entered into the performance management scheme it would be on the implementation, not on the performance management process.

JD stated that IFUT considered some aspects of performance management to be IR issues and that these should be dealt with the normal IR procedures.

HG asked if there was an extension of flexi-time across campus

MF stated that the flexi time arrangements had been taken from previous progress reports

POR asked if there was enough in the report to get the 2.5%

MF this will be reviewed however submission is by 31^th March 2006.

5 AOB

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Date of next Meeting is scheduled for Thursday 30^th March 2006