Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

What we want is very clear. We want all sides to engage in the established dispute resolution mechanisms. The Public Sector Agreement Group, PSAG, was used twice, as the Deputy will be aware. The recommendation for PSAG under Building Momentum was that all sides would revert to the WRC, critically without industrial action. We are all aware that it is causing very significant disruption to the acute sector. There are patients waiting on quite urgent surgery who are having that surgery cancelled. The Deputy and I know that none of those on the picket lines want that. They have worked incredibly hard. They have done incredibly difficult and vital work right through the pandemic. We want to see this resolved. I assure the Deputy and all of the workers that the Government very much wants to see engagement at the WRC. If a-----

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