Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

Question 101: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in view of the decisions of ICTU and SIPTU to defer entry to talks on a new social partnership agreement, the steps he has taken and the proposals he has formulated to address concerns regarding the protection of workers' jobs, pay and conditions of employment from displacement in favour of cheap labour involving the exploitation of non-national workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31717/05]

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