Victor Boyhan thanks Forsa and its members during a brief address in Leinster House as the union's three-day annual conference enters its second day. He welcomes the Taoiseach's address and stresses that collaboration and fairness for public servants are essential to the country's progress.
Conference thanks and engagement
Victor Boyhan opens by acknowledging Forsa, the trade union, and wishing its members well as their annual conference continues. He notes his personal engagement with the union's publications and describes Forsa as a credible organisation deserving of parliamentary support.
Who Forsa represents
Boyhan details the breadth of Forsa's membership: civil servants, health and welfare workers, local government and service staff, education personnel, municipal workers, and employees in semi-state and private enterprises. He highlights the union's presence across clerical, administrative, technical, professional and manual roles.
Parliamentary partnership
He argues that Forsa's membership closely intersects with the work of parliamentarians, local government and the public service, and that this relationship benefits public institutions. Boyhan applauds the union's advocacy and its collaboration with policy makers.
A call for collaboration and fairness
Concluding his remarks, Boyhan stresses that collaboration, compromise when necessary and fairness to employees and public services are the way forward for the country. He wishes the Taoiseach well as he addresses the conference and offers his good wishes to Forsa members working in the Oireachtas and beyond.
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Thank you Cathaoirleach and thank you Leader, as today I just want to take some time, one, to thank Forsa, the trade union, and to thank its members and wish its members well as it's now in its second day of its three-day annual conference. I also want to wish Taoiseach well as he addresses the conference today and engage us hopefully in a two-way respectful dialogue with the members of the trade union. I think it's important to point out, many of you will see Forsa magazines on the corridors of Leinster House, I particularly go and get them, I engage with them, I think they're a very credible organisation and I want to support them. I think it's important to say that Forsa is the trade union of choice for over 25,000 civil servants working as clerical, administrative, technical and professional staff and service officers. Forsa represents 30,000 health and welfare workers including health and social care professionals, clerical, administrative, management and technical staff. Forsa are the trade union of choice for over 10,000 local government and service workers including clerical, administrative, management, technical and professional staff. Forsa are the education trade union for more than 18,000 staff in our schools and early education as well as clerical, administrative, management and in the institutions of technology and indeed our ETBs that we'd be very familiar with. Forsa are also the trade union for municipal workers, supporting general operatives and manual workers in local councils and in educational institutions. Forsa are the trade union for over 7,000 workers of services and enterprises including commercial and non-commercial semi-state organisations and private companies in aviation and communication. I believe they're a critical body that represent a very important workforce that interplay with our work as parliamentarians and those who work in local government and in the civil service and the public service. And public service is well served by that collaboration and I know all of us want to wish their conference well, want to wish the Taoiseach well. It is collaboration that is going to make this country go forward. It is working together, it is compromising when necessary but also being fair to our employees, fair to our public services. So today I want to thank Forsa for its advocacy work, its collaboration with politics, with policy makers and wish the members of Forsa and all public servants who work in these houses of the Oireachtas every success and continued happiness in this workspace. Thank you.
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