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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I thank the Cathaoirleach and members of the committee. I am now 13 weeks in my role, with my feet firmly under the desk. I look forward to working constructively with the committee in the days and months ahead. Before I read my statement, I wish both parties in the Aer Lingus dispute the very best today, on an important day for our country. Our connectivity as a small, open, island...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for her question. It is very important that this matter be resolved quickly. As I pointed out, every single industrial relations dispute is resolved. It is important to acknowledge that both parties to this dispute have a strong track record in dealing with the industrial relations infrastructure of the State. They have resolved disputes previously through that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: It is not about having a plan B. We all have to be honest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I want to blow out of the water any narrative that the Government can usurp the Labour Court and the industrial relations machinery of the State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: That is what a plan B suggests. It brings forward the idea that there is a magic wand in the cupboard. I have no such wand. I want to be clear on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: When someone asks me whether I have a plan B, it is sending out a narrative that there is an alternative to the industrial relations machinery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I regret the premise of the Deputy's question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: The premise of her question-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Which I agree with.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Let us be very clear here-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: -----we have industrial relations machinery available and it is working.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: The agencies have intervened. The Deputy should please let both parties engage constructively today in an independent manner. That approach has served the State well, and both companies, in the preceding days.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Does Deputy O'Reilly have a suggestion for a plan B?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I am very clear on my position.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: It is very dangerous to put forward-----