Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On Leaders' Questions in the Dáil, it was put to me by Deputy Mythen in relation to the current dispute of Fórsa workers in the local authorities. What I have said is that we are in national pay talks right now. That is the way to be able to deal with any future claims and conditions. We all respect those workers, who do lots of good work.

I think any of the issues they highlighted are resolvable within the national pay talks, which have started. There is no indication that anything we are doing now will be affected by that at all. Unfortunately, it means that public representatives who are elected - councillors, Deputies-----