Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----where there is consistent downward pressure on wages and terms and conditions. This needs a far more comprehensive response. One would have thought that we would have got that comprehensive response in the Spring Economic Statement yesterday but we did not get a response in any shape or form to what is a growing issue for large numbers of people in our workforce. That is the point.

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