Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

It is oversight over human resources. To be clear, this same person attempted to go to the WRC and discovered that he cannot go to the WRC because, apparently, people are deemed workers, not employees, when they are members of the Defence Forces, which seems ridiculous to me. Apparently they cannot go to the WRC with a case of penalisation. It looks like the Minister's officials are confirming that. Where does this person go? He came to me. I tabled a question to the Department. The Secretary General, who oversees all this, went to military management and asked if this is happening, they said no, and that is the answer we got back. I would not have a great deal of faith if this is a body that is supposed to be an external oversight body and that is the attitude taken by the Department to grievances raised by members of the Defence Forces. I do not know why the Minister is shaking his head. If he wants to explain to me now, he can.

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