Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

It is an important message to come from the House. It will also uphold the value of the industrial relations machinery in place to protect workers' rights. Both parties, employers and workers, must uphold and honour the outcome of the labour relations machinery, be it the Labour Relations Commission or the Labour Court.

Some rhetoric has been used in the House to position the Taoiseach as the cause of the problem. Deputy Joe Higgins is equally guilty of utilising rhetoric as fanciful and farcical in his accusations against the media.

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