Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

My supplementary will take only 30 seconds. In the last two hours in an astounding development, stormtrooper type security has taken over the Isle of Inishmore and Ulysses ferries and locked in the crew at the behest of Irish Ferries management as part of its campaign to replace the workers with eastern European exploited labour. This is an outrageous development. Will the Minister come into the House before the end of this session today, on behalf of the Government, and make a statement on the Government's attitude to this incredible act of high sea piracy on foot of Irish Ferries campaign to sack 540 workers and replace them with the most exploited labour from eastern Europe and taking this unprecedented action today on the high seas in Pembroke and in Holyhead? Will the Minister come into the House before the——

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