Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss the following matter of urgent national importance, namely, the need for all involved in the current round of pay talks to prioritise those on low pay, to accept that in the last pay talks the low paid fared least favourably and that their increases were first to be stripped away by inflation; to acknowledge the serious impact that rising consumer prices are having on this section of our people, adding significantly to food and fuel poverty and to ensure that any pay increases awarded in the pay talks to the lowest paid are geared to outstripping inflation and providing an acceptable standard of living to those people.

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