Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am aware of the dispute but not the details of the claim. Should it not be possible to resolve the issue between the local authority's management and the representatives of the firefighters I suggest that State intervention may be required. That intervention should be by the Workplace Relations Commission. We established the latter as a State body precisely because it has the expertise to intervene in such disputes. If the local authority and the firefighters' representatives cannot resolve the issue at a workplace level, that is the intervention that should occur.

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