Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am a bit perplexed. I would say the Deputy must have struggled on this dispute. I did not see this coming but maybe I should have.

It is highly regrettable that any Member of this House would cast an aspersion on the Labour Court. We have a long-standing industrial relations mechanism in this country, with both the Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court, that is a key part of the infrastructure. To say the Labour Court is not the friend of the worker is factually untrue. The court is not there to be the friend of anybody, by the way-----

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