Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Last week, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of long queues in Dublin Airport leading to some passengers missing their flights. After that, I was contacted by staff at Dublin Airport who stated that despite several years' service on the security team, they are still waiting for full-time contracts and are currently on rosters that give them little more than 20 hours' work per week. They indicated that the Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, has many fully trained and experienced security staff who would love to be working on full-time contracts and instead are on these rosters with reduced hours. This race to the bottom in working conditions is unfair on staff and passengers and is damaging to our international reputation. Did the Taoiseach contact the DAA as he committed to do last week? What did it say? Does the Taoiseach stand over this exploitative treatment of staff by a semi-State company? Will he ask the DAA to end the chaos at the airport and give these workers full-time contracts?

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