Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for Health has stated in the House on a number of occasions that negotiation and discussion is the priority rather than workers having to take strike action. The ambulance medics are going back out again on Friday for a 24-hour strike. They have been out three times already and have engaged in two protests outside the Dáil, yet this matter has still not been resolved. These people have a human right to join the union of their choice. On the contingency plans, for the previous three days of action the workers came up with the contingency plan, not the HSE. It is absolutely outrageous that this is happening. I would like the Minister to intervene.

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