Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I add my voice to the call for a short debate on the situation with the NAS. These workers provide a vital service for people with disabilities. They have not had an increase in their basic rate of pay for more than a decade. They have been forced out on the picket lines because their employers, and standing behind their employers the Department of Social Protection, will not implement a Labour Court recommendation. We got lectures in here last week about the sanctity of the Labour Court and here we have a Labour Court recommendation that the employers and the Department standing behind them are not implementing. The Department should intervene and settle this on the terms recommended to benefit the workers in terms of their wages and their conditions.

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