Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

I agree with the Deputy that there is an issue to be examined here. I have put my own views on outsourcing on record; I am not a fan of it. We should deliver public services through the public service. That is my general view on this and on other areas, but the reality is, as the Deputy knows as well as I do, that even if there was a decision in the morning that the service was to be outsourced, it would present significant logistic difficulties to get to that point. It would not solve this dispute. The only solution is for the union to rescind its action.

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