Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is an enormously frustrating response as it is the same response we have been getting for two years now. One, therefore, gets the impression from the response that the forum established by the former Minister, Deputy Howlin, has not achieved anything. Deputies have mentioned supervisors who have since retired. The first person to raise this issue with me has passed away - I am sure there are many others - and his family has been left without the benefit of a pension.

This weekend last year, the Tánaiste made a statement on a Labour Court recommendation relating to the Garda and referred to "the Government's long-standing respect for the rulings of the Labour Court as the independent industrial relations body of last resort in the State". That is how she defined the Labour Court and its rulings, and properly so, yet, on this occasion, the Government is ignoring the findings of the Labour Court - the independent industrial relations body of last resort of the State. A pathway on how to avoid relativity issues and other issues the Minister has mentioned was laid out but it seems it is being ignored. If we have to come back again on a cross-party basis, we will, but I ask the Minister to communicate to the Minister for Finance and the forum the cross-party support within Dáil Éireann for this case.

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