Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

The reason we should debate it is the 2,600 workers who depend for their livelihood on Bus Éireann. There is talk of redundancies and reducing the composite pay of the workers by a dramatic amount. We have not had a proper debate on this in the Dáil. We have had Topical Issue debate with Deputies speaking for one minute, but this is obviously the key industrial dispute of our time over recent months and we should be debating it in Dáil Éireann. I ask the Ceann Comhairle to agree that we could table something between 10 a.m. and 12 noon on Thursday.

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