Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

——pay people to work after 6 p.m. and is prepared to pay for the general practitioner service. We have to get people to work. I hope we will get co-operation in the talks that are taking place. It is a fact of life, and I do not say this in a cynical way, that people do not stop getting sick at 5 p.m. or 1 p.m. on a Saturday. What we need in the negotiations is the co-operation of front line people to work those hours. They are not being asked to do that for nothing but for payment.

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