Mr. Liam Woods:

There is a public sector pay issue involved within the overall dispute, which is a matter for public pay policy. There are some matters on which we would broadly be of a common mind The commitment of lab scientists, which has been referred to earlier, in Covid response and in overall support to the hospital system, is unquestioned. I do not want to get into the detail of the discussions we have had and will have in the WRC but I fundamentally take the view that we must resolve it now. We cannot allow a break of two days in service within hospitals.