Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I did not interrupt Deputy McGuinness. Last week and over the last couple of years since I have been in this Chamber, I, like many others, have raised the issue of section 39, section 56 and section 10 organisations. We have raised it for years, on occasion after occasion. We met the workers and the unions yesterday in the audiovisual room in Leinster House and they were angry that there was zero provision in this budget, which Deputies McGuinness and McAuliffe backed, to address pay restoration for these workers. Not a single member of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael or the Green Party bothered to turn up to hear from them yesterday. They would have seen that they were resolute in their determination to stand strong for pay restoration and with their clients to defend the work that they do and demand that they are respected as the highly trained and experienced workers that they are. Could I correct the record? One did turn up, as has been mentioned earlier. He arrived, went to the back of the room, probably realised he was at the wrong meeting, and swiftly left.

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