Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

About 25 minutes ago, the Taoiseach told Deputy O'Reilly that the Government was anxious to defend the employment regulation order in the security industry. This ERO would have ensured a minimum rate of pay for security workers of a mere €12.50 per hour but there is an injunction out against it. Is the Taoiseach aware that the Department of Transport recently gave the contract for security work at its head office in Dublin to the company that took out that injunction? Does he believe that a company that went to such extraordinary lengths to maintain poverty pay in the security industry is deserving of contracts? Will he ask the Minister to ask this company to drop this injunction and pay its workers, at the very least, the minimum rate ordered by the courts and make very clear to it that the contract will not be renewed unless there is action taken on these issues?

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