Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Security workers have not had a pay rise since 2019. An employment regulation order, ERO, to increase their pay and conditions has been challenged for a second time by three security companies. Some of these companies have extremely lucrative contracts with the State. On the one hand, the companies are negotiating multimillion euro contracts with the State, while on the other, they are doing their utmost to deny decent pay and conditions to their workers, who are delivering on these contracts with the State. I ask for an update on the Government's defence of the ERO on behalf of security workers. Are there plans to consider whether further contracts should be negotiated with these companies? Their workers deliver contracts on behalf of the State, while the same workers watch on as these companies take the Government, essentially, to court to deny workers the pay rise they deserve.

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