Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

In accordance with the terms of Standing Order 31, I wish to seek to move the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss the following specific and important matter of public interest, namely, the need for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the steps heintends to take arising from the rejection by Irish Ferries of the Labour Court decision on its plans to replace more than 500 employees with cheaper labour from abroad, having regard not just to the implications for labour relations in the maritime sector, but also to the wider threat the decision poses to the future of social partnership.

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