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

As the Deputy knows better than I, there are mechanisms by which we can and do resolve such disputes. Talks took place at the Workplace Relations Commission yesterday and adjourned at 7 p.m. without agreement. The option is there now to go to the Labour Court to have this decided and finalised. That is what I suggest as the next step forward. That is how so many disputes have been resolved in the past and it is how this dispute can be resolved in order to avoid the strike on Thursday and the unnecessary disruption for patients to which it will give rise.

I should put on record the fact that the cost of implementing the first two phases - phases 3 and 4 are not yet complete - will be approximately €16 million a year. It would be remiss of me not to point out that the Government has come in for criticism for-----

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