John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not asking the Minister to introduce anything piecemeal. I am asking her to introduce the full recommendation of the WRC from back in 2008. What that recommendation lays out would cost a fraction of the €188 million the Minister cites. We are not talking about doing things piecemeal. We are talking about the Minister following up on the commitments in the programme for Government, honouring and respecting the WRC and not being an impediment to its work.

A motion was passed in the Dáil before the summer recess, brought forward by the Minister's friends in Fianna Fáil with Sinn Féin's support. It called on the Government to implement the recommendations from the WRC. We are coming into the budgetary process and, in the next couple of weeks, we will have a negotiated budget presented between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Have there been any discussions about implementing that motion? Have there been any discussions between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael about implementing the pensions for community employment supervisors and their assistants?

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