Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The recommendations from that report were most welcome. They backed up what medical scientists knew for a long time, that there was no material distinction between the work they do and the work the clinical biochemists do. This dispute is not just a year and a bit long, it is 22 years long. We have the upcoming pay discussions that this will be included in. This group of workers have been waiting a long time for this. They need support. They need to see that the Minister and his Government are supporting them and putting energy into the issue. We gave them an awful lot of platitudes, particularly during the Covid crisis, for the work they did behind the scenes in the basements of hospitals and health facilities all over the country. Now they need public support and public pressure from this House, the Government and the Minister to ensure they get their pay parity and that is done as soon as possible.

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