Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

Apologies. I am slightly worried by the Minister's answer. In so far as job losses are taking place in these areas, I and many reasonable people would argue it is the lack of demand in the economy that results in people's incomes being slashed. What I and the workers in this sector are looking for is an assurance that while there may be anomalies, and the unions and so on involved recognise there are some anomalies, straightening out anomalies will not result in an attack on the pay, conditions or the mechanism that guarantees the reasonable and basic minimum pay and condition standards for some of the lowest paid workers in the State who have already been hammered with cuts. Can the Minister give that assurance and can he indicate when this legislation will be published-----

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