Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We want to see an orderly unwinding of the emergency position in which the country found itself and to which many Deputies have referred. We want to do this as much as everybody else and nobody has a monopoly of those concerns. We want to do it in an orderly fashion that is affordable and manageable. We want to do it in discussion and dialogue with the representatives of the public servants at the heart of this process. That is from where the public service pay agreement came, as well as the consequent legislation. That is the basis on which we are proceeding.

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