John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)

I spoke earlier on this issue of forcing people to work later in life and I do not want to go over what I said in regard to farm workers, labourers and so on. Interestingly, I spoke to someone from Waterford on the telephone about an hour ago, a supporter of mine who works in a hotel. The lady has worked in the hotel for 32 years. She is 60 years of age and had hoped to retire in the past number of years but her husband was made unemployed. Her job description is to clean so many rooms. As the Minister may know, this is how hotels work.

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