Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

As the Deputy will accept, the talks are highly sensitive. It would not be wise, therefore, to set preconditions. However, the logic of the position dictates that the trade unions at all levels and specifically the union involved in the dispute reconsider their stance. I say this as someone who was a member of the executive of the union in question and is not in any sense a union basher. What is being done is terribly damaging and also dreadfully frustrating for the general public. I thank Members again.

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