Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Any workers in the public sector, be they in semi-state companies such as the ESB or the public service, who do not immediately swallow the austerity agenda of the Government and the troika are now routinely bullied publicly by Government spokespersons and the capitalist press. The semi-state organisations are not encompassed by the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013, but secondary teachers who are in dispute with the Government very clearly are. Has the Minister any plans to use the Act? Will he make a statement on that?

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