Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Given that Cork City Council has decided to withhold pay due to its firefighters under the terms of a national pay agreement, that every other local authority in the State has honoured the agreement and paid its firefighters and that this decision to renege now places Cork two weeks away from an official firefighters dispute, is the Taoiseach prepared to ask the Minister for Finance to sign a ministerial order instructing Cork City Council to immediately pay the moneys owed?

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