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welcome the workers here tonight. It is not easy to come here after being on a picket line for two days in the cold. BIMM is exploiting the talent and creativity of these musicians and lecturers. The BIMM website boasts about unrivalled industry connections, experienced tutors … There is also a need for solidarity from other workers. For example, the workers told me yesterday that while they were on the picket line the classes were being provided online by people who have chosen to scab on them. That is a lesson for teachers and others

affected workers and communities, who know what their needs are, to begin to plan democratically for future disaster prevention and response. A bottom-line point is that the State has a responsibility to provide reliable electricity for people. When that supply is not reliable, every household must … secure renewable power source whenever the grid fails. We also need to act to build the capacity of ESB Networks. I stood on picket lines four years ago with workers who warned me about the outsourcing that was going on and the loss of capacity. We must build

different reasons. There is transfer trauma, and residents and their loved ones feel they are not being listened to. I was on the picket line with them. They felt they were not getting a response back from the Government. If there was engagement that involved sitting down with

lecturers of the BIMM music college have been forced onto the picket lines. They face an incredible assault on their rights, with 53 workers facing redundancy. A small number of them will be re-employed on less than half the hourly wage they were on previously

British and Irish Modern Music, BIMM, institute. Four of those lecturers are here in the Public Gallery. They were all on the picket lines earlier. I was with them today on Thomas Street. They have been forced to take strike action and mount protests because of absolutely shameful

plaques are inscribed with the names of 11 courageous Dunnes Stores workers who went on strike in 1984 and took to the picket lines in protest against the company's handling of goods from apartheid South Africa. For more than two and a half years, Mary Manning

have to do what Mary Manning and her friends did 41 years ago. They do not have to stand for years on the picket line in the cold, wind and rain. They simply can enact the occupied territories Bill. They can step forward tonight and announce that