Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have nothing more to add bar that the Government is responding to this.

I listened to Deputy Barry, yesterday and again today, with his call for action. I have listened to the Deputy in the past on other disputes and other issues as well. People who followed Deputy Barry's advice previously often got bad advice from him and were misinformed or brought down the wrong path. I would ask anybody to look at what the Government is doing. We are engaging through the mechanisms we have always had - our response to the Low Pay Commission, the living wage and our work with the union representative bodies and employer bodies - to try to get the correct balance in relation to job creation, jobs recovery and jobs protection, and to recognise the need for increases across the various mechanisms of wages and supports to businesses and families. However, Deputy Barry has a particular drive and a particular aim of what he wants to do.

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