Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

The Government is still ready, willing and able to engage in social partnership and to talk about the very necessary transformation that needs to take place in the public sector generally. Changes and transformation are required to provide the kind of service for our citizens that is needed, the kind of service we saw many frontline workers deliver during the past three or four weeks. We are still very much part of social partnership. The Labour Court is still available to the parties, as are other mechanisms, and I again urge everybody involved to use them.

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