Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

When does the Minister envisage a ban on zero-hour contracts will be introduced given their impact on people's lives, the inability to plan their lives, the impact on people's mental health, the inability to access mortgages and the fact that they are symptomatic of the rise in precarity?

I ask the question particularly in the context of the Lloyds Pharmacy dispute. We have some Lloyds workers with us in the Visitors Gallery. Despite the denials and the propaganda by the company, they are affected by zero-hour contracts, which is one of the issues in the dispute.

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