Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

What I am saying specifically is that we all know that the evidence available, the 400,000 people outlined by Dr. Bambrick, is fact. Nobody is disputing that. Those people voluntarily gave up their claims and went back to work when their sectors reopened. Mr. McDonnell is referring specifically to sectors that are not yet fully open. He is talking about part-time work. Whether he has heard of Mr. Pat Phelan or not is entirely immaterial. If we are just trading anecdotes at this stage - and, let us be frank, that is all we are doing because Mr. McDonnell has not provided any hard evidence - all the available evidence suggests that people will go back to work when the work is offered and that the best incentive to go back to work is decent pay and fair conditions. I do not see that there is anything to disagree with in that.