Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That approach has not worked very well outside countries like North Korea, if that is what the Deputy is talking about. We want an actual legal framework which will be enhanced by the new legislation so we get actual results for workers. As we saw yesterday, more and more people are going back to work. We now have a situation where unemployment is down to 348,000. Instead of celebrating working people going back to work, the Deputy seems to want to strew every obstacle in their way.

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