Dáil debates
Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
2:40 pm
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
We need to bear that in mind with any decisions we make as a Government. Efforts are under way in the Labour Court to resolve this. We want to resolve it and to avert the strike tomorrow. We do not want to have industrial action next week or the following week which adversely affects patients in any way but any solution we come to has to be affordable for taxpayers or it will not be sustainable. It has to be fair to all public servants, including the other people who work in the health service and in other parts of our public services. It is not possible to meet everyone's demands and it would not be fair to do a special deal for one group and then tell the others that we have nothing for them. It also has to be fair for patients. Those are the parameters within which we are working in the Labour Court to come to a resolution.
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