Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

We are keen to add our voice to points raised on the need for a far more urgent approach and urgent action in respect of the case of Ibrahim Halawa.

The main issue that I wish to raise is the issue of the renewal of the financial emergency legislation. It is somewhat strange that financial emergency legislation is being renewed at a time when there is no financial emergency in the State. This legislation underpins pay and pension cuts for hundreds of thousands of public service workers.

It is also legislation that underpins the two-tier wage rates, with lower rates of pay for new entrants into the public service, which is widely seen in society as-----

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