Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

They are the figures I have been given so I hope the Minister can correct that. Even if there were no deferrals, the point is that we still have 3,000 people who have no faith in their employers in respect of bringing about their entitlement under European law. I know the Minister will give me the historical lecture on it but we are in a position where we have a complete breakdown of trust. I urge everybody to go back to the LRC to see if this issue can be resolved but in the meantime, as political head of the HSE, the Minister must surely ask the HSE why trust has broken down and tell us whether he has faith in it in respect of how it has negotiated so far with the IMO on behalf of NCHDs.

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