Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The person who stands in front of a classroom who may not be called out at night is also a front-line server, a front-line service person, and the person who works in critical elements of a local authority or Departments of State who might never be called out at night on front-line duty, as it were, is also a front-line person. There is no question of the Government focusing particularly on one sector here. This is an overall wage negotiation between Government and public service workers and, from that point of view, we have set our course here to rectify our public financial problems. Despite the very good news coming from the agreement of the ECB in regard to the promissory note, clearly the situation is still challenging for the country and we have to stay the course here in the interests of everybody.

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