Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I do not understand the answer. The social partnership talks surely do not include what will be in a European directive. There are two issues. I can understand social partnership discussions will clearly involve what will be in domestic legislation but the immediate matter is that Ireland and Hungary are now the only two countries blocking a European directive on temporary agency workers. The British have now lifted their objection.

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