Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Early this morning I stood with workers at the Debenhams picket line in Blackrock along with shop stewards, workers from other Debenhams stores across the city who came to their aid and many from the local area and beyond supporting them and was witness to strikebreakers from KPMG arriving, attempting to enter the store to remove assets and break the Debenhams picket line. They acted in quite an aggressive manner against a peaceful, socially distanced protest. It was an appalling vista. The women strikers, who have worked for years, paid tax and played by all the rules were put in an invidious position, surrounded by gardaí. In fairness, they did not intervene, but the workers asked why they were there and pointed out that they are not criminals but are just fighting for their jobs, fair redundancy and decent treatment at the hands of a company that has treated them appallingly. All of them asked again and again why the Taoiseach will not get off the fence, intervene on their behalf and do the simple thing of calling in KPMG, asking them to stop behaving in this way, asking them publicly to stop trying to break the strike and holding a meeting with the shop stewards, the workers and KPMG.

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