Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The forum will meet again to engage with unions on the matter.

12 o’clock

The Deputy is right to say that this matter has been around for quite a while. One of the reasons for that is that it cuts to the heart of a principle regarding who the State does and does not employ. This is a matter that Fianna Fáil grappled with when it was in government many years ago when the resources available to the State were greater. We will be meeting the unions again to get their response to the project and to the scoping report that we have shared with them. I have been trying to catch up on my notes to get to the question that the Deputy put to me. The meetings to which I am referring took place on 23 November 2017 and on Friday, 15 December.

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