Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

I wish to raise a couple of issues. Very much on people's mind at the moment is that this day week, there could be a 24-hour complete shutdown of our airports. Why do we always have this high wire act with disputes in essential services? It is many years since the Oireachtas made legislative provision for special ways of dealing with disputes in essential services but they have never been acted upon by Government or agreed by the social partners.

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