Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Discrimination in employment is illegal. There was a long struggle, going way back to the 1830s in the United States and right up to the 1970s in this country, for equality in employment and to make it unacceptable to discriminate against any category of person. In recent weeks, however, teachers angrily protested and took strike action because the Minister refused to commit to the basic principle of equal pay for equal work. It is very simple, will he commit to that principle?

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