Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

In the current climate, when people have lost their jobs, as Deputy Broughan has so often pointed out, and have taken cuts in pay and everything else, this is not the way to resolve the difficulties they have.

Deputy Broughan asked me why there were suspensions. There were suspensions because the people were going into work and refusing to do the work they were doing up to 31 December 2009. They were allowed to do that for the best part of three weeks while the IAA tried to resolve the difficulties and the IAA decided-----

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