Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of local and national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Transport to make an urgent statement to the House on the looming strike action at Aer Lingus and to ensure that all possible industrial relations mechanisms of the State are immediately utilised to facilitate the resumption of talks, with the aim of avoiding at all costs serious disruption for the travelling public in the busy pre-Christmas period and the appalling impact of the proposed massive job cuts on the Aer Lingus workforce given rising levels of unemployment in north and west Dublin, the mid-Leinster region and in Shannon and the mid-west.

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