Social Partnership Agreements

The Department of the Taoiseach is responsible for the overall negotiations and implementation of the Social Partnership Agreements, of which there have been seven to date including the current agreement:

• Towards 2016, Ten-Year Framework Social Partnership Agreement 2006-2015

Each of the seven Social Partnership Agreements - which are focused principally on incomes, fiscal, social, economic and competitiveness policies – have been negotiated between the Government and the social partners.  The latter are organised into four pillars as follows:

• Trade Union Pillar
• Business and Employer Pillar
• Farming Pillar
• Community and Voluntary Pillar (included for first time in negotiations on Partnership 2000)

The negotiations on each of the Social Partnership Agreements were preceded by the production of Frameworks agreed under the auspices of the:

National Economic and Social Council (NESC)

Implementation of the Agreements is achieved primarily through the production of Quarterly Progress Reports.

Contact:

Social Partnership - socialpartnership@taoiseach.gov.ie