Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have been told they are not zero-hour contracts and I will further interrogate that to ensure that they are proper and to the level they should be.

We want a deal and that is still the outcome that Europe wants, that Ireland certainly wants and that the United Kingdom says it wants. Notwithstanding all the talk last week, therefore, the joint committee has remained engaged on the protocol issue. There has been some constructive engagement in that regard and I hope a deal can be arrived at. In the context of where that does not happen, Europe will have significant decisions to make about contingency planning, and we have to be alive to that too.

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