Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

There are 16,000 security officers in this country. They were recognised during Covid as being essential workers. However, they remain very low-paid workers involved in stressful work, in many cases working up to 60 hours a week. They were due to get a very small pay increase to €12.50 an hour under an employment regulation order, ERO. However, three security companies, namely, Top Security, Las and Morbury, took a case to seek and were granted, scandalously, an ex parteinjunction to stop the ERO coming into effect. Top Security is a company that receives public contracts. These three companies are happy for their workers to remain in poverty conditions while they continue to make profits. So far, the Government has not responded to this. We have a press statement acknowledging it. Why does the Government not go to court and challenge the injunction so that workers get what they are owed?

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