Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Government put a set of proposals developed in negotiations with the trade unions. Those proposals have not been accepted. We now need to look at this situation with the trade unions that represent those employees. It is a time for that to be done in a calm and reasoned way and it is not a time for Deputy Daly or anybody else to play politics with it.

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