Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The State, as Deputy Adams knows, made available all the industrial relations facilitates to help the parties come to an agreed solution. I understand the talks at the Workplace Relations Commission aimed at resolving that dispute adjourned on 19 May after 14 hours without agreement. More discussions took place between Tesco and Mandate in the Workplace Relations Commission on 23 May into the morning of 24 May. I am informed that those discussions adjourned without agreement so that both parties could go away and consider the position. I implore both parties to return to the WRC to resume talks before this escalates any further. I heard some comment on it this morning. I hope it will be taken up and that they will both return to the Workplace Relations Commission to sort this out. Obviously the pay claim by Mandate and SIPTU was brought to the Labour Court in early 2016, so the facilities are there. I am glad the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, will be challenged by his requirement to deal with a whole range of challenging areas including the McMahon report.

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