Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has been asked repeatedly but there is nothing new in what he said today regarding the retained firefighters. They walked out when the Minister said it the other night. He pointed towards the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, the Labour Court, the constraints of Building Momentum, and the informal national pay talks in July. This is an escalating situation. The retained firefighters are going on all-out strike and talking about handing in their pagers. What will the Minister do personally to intervene? Is there a way around those constraints? The issue of pay has to be addressed between now and July. That timeline is simply unacceptable. What will the Minister do and what will he say today that is new on the issue of retained firefighters?

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