John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I ask again about the field study that was carried out. Could the findings be made public? I would be interested in seeing them and I have no reason to doubt that the study will bear out the information members of the Defence Forces have given and that in many circumstances they are working 60 or 70 hours per week. At a meeting of the joint committee the other day, the Minister spoke about derogations and exemptions from the working time directive and he has touched on that again this morning. He stated at the committee that the representative bodies were fully supportive of the need for those exemptions and derogations. While he talks about the sub-committee, I want to talk about the consultations with the representative bodies proper with regard to those exemptions. Is the Minister saying they are fully supportive of the need for derogations and exemptions? I ask for specifics on what exemptions are being looked at.

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