Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I fully accept the Deputy's bona fides on this. Having been alongside him for seven years in the Oireachtas, I have seen his commitment to workers' rights and to health and safety in the workplace, which has followed from his own long professional experience in this area working across the trades and much else. The assurance I will give the Deputy on the floor of the House is that whatever the HSA needs from the Department in order to allow it to carry out this independent investigation fully and thoroughly will be provided. The Department and this Government will never be lacking in providing the independent agency of the State with those resources to make sure it carries out a full, detailed investigation into this particular incident the Deputy brings our attention to this evening.

I also want to say, crucially, that I will work with the Deputy. There have been number of accusations made there and more details have been provided, and I fully-----

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