Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The provision on the withholding of increments should go. Workers are entitled to receive their increments; as I mentioned earlier, it is not just about pay. Restoration is also about other things done in the rubric of emergency measures. It is not just about the Minister's approach to negotiating with trade unions. Let us be honest. Everybody who ultimately signed up to the agreement would prefer if all of the financial emergency measures in the public interest cuts, curtailments and reductions were restored. That is what they want. The Minister convinced them or their trade union representatives-----