SIPTU members have voted in favour of the Haddington Road proposals on pay and reform in the public service.

The union, which has around 45,000 health service workers as members, is the largest in the country.

SIPTU members voted by 76% to 24% in favour of the proposals.

Meanwhile, the General Secretary of SIPTU said today the controversy over how millions of euros in public money ended up in a bank account controlled by two people associated with SIPTU has caused damage to the union.

Joe O'Flynn was addressing the Dail Public Accounts Committee, which was probing the ongoing controversy into how €4 million in funding from State bodies was paid into an account known as the SIPTU National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund.

A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General found that around €600,000 had been spent on foreign trips by trade union officials, public servants and others.

The union has refunded €1 million in public funds to the Exchequer that remained in the bank account.