literally to the eleventh hour. It dithered, delayed and played a game of chicken with public sector workers and drove them onto the picket line. Now, after ten days of talks, it has failed to bring forward a credible offer in respect of pay. That is the Taoiseach
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refused to countenance talks in which the issue of pay was front and centre. It took more than 300,000 workers joining picket lines before you climbed down. Now, just a few weeks later, there will be another day of strike action because your Government has failed
Sláintecare. It is bad for patients. Recruitment freezes hurt patients. We know this. Recruitment freezes also hurt staff. What the staff on the picket line a few weeks ago wanted was to be in work but they want safe staffing. They want the health service
would like to back my constituency colleague Deputy O'Reilly. We stood on the picket lines with teachers last week and it struck me that the refrain over and over again was pressure, pressure, pressure. Pressure is coming from every direction. St. Patrick's school is at critical
hours to avert next Wednesday's planned action. The ball is firmly in the Government's court.
The Minister will not have visited picket lines at hospitals, council yards, schools, primary care centres and Intreo offices yesterday but my Labour colleagues and I did. Let me tell
also working conditions and the many other elements and chapters of a public sector pay agreement.
I did speak to people on the picket line yesterday. Naturally, I have spoken to many people over the last while. We are talking about sisters, brothers, cousins and other family members
great budget for workers when they are not being given permanent contracts.
I watched yesterday as healthcare workers went on the picket line. We know that we have 1 million people on our hospital waiting lists. These graduates deserve permanent contracts. The INMO has been raising concerns about
Yesterday, we had 300,000 people on the picket lines seeking a fair pay deal. I spent most of the day talking to some of those workers across Wexford. I want to raise the issue of recruitment and question the HSE’s pay and numbers strategy that sets
that delivers an increase above inflation but that they need one because they cannot afford to live. I met many people on the picket lines yesterday who struggle to afford the basics because, for a variety of reasons, including some that are international, which I acknowledge, the cost
Yesterday, I stood proudly alongside our striking public sector workers on picket lines. I listened to hardworking people who did not want to be on strike. These are people who have dedicated their lives to delivering the services we all use every single day but who have been
Yesterday I was on picket lines across Dublin Fingal West. I met hard-working ordinary people who do their best every single day of the week for the public services they deliver. They are the ones at the business end of Government indifference and incompetence. They
Union alternative AI summit last weekend who discussed how they are being affected by AI. It could have listened to workers on the picket lines yesterday talking about how hard it is to put food on the table and how stressful it is to work in underfunded
open to them. Thousands of their members went on strike. In County Laois, there were not just pickets; there were crowds on the picket lines, from the council to the hospitals, the prison and the Departments. I was proud to stand with workers from the three health unions
quietly about their work and that they would not say anything or resist in any way. Yesterday, workers were forced onto picket lines around the country. This speaks volumes. Many of these people have never been out on strike before and they felt strong enough to do that
number of reasons. It is pockmarked with ambiguities, it is inconsistent and, frankly, after the democratic expression of anxiety yesterday on the picket lines across this country, it is tone deaf and has now been overtaken by events. This, in itself, is an articulation of the cack-handed
deal to address the soaring cost of living. These are nurses, teachers, special needs assistants - public servants - forced to the picket lines, and Sinn Féin stands with them. These are the workers we depend on. They educate our children, take care of us when we are sick
Does he really think nurses want to be going on strike tomorrow? Does he think teachers want to be standing outside schools on picket lines? His comments are telling. They betray a condescending attitude from the Government to public service workers which has led to this strike
budget for workers. If the Minister of State asks the workers, they will tell him that themselves tomorrow when they are on the picket lines. His party colleagues and councillors throughout the country are saying in council chambers that this was not a budget for people
poor nurse who is trying to keep up with her bills and pay her rent, he or she has to go to the picket line under this Government
morning will not get any real help from this budget. Neither will the average nurse in Beaumont Hospital who will be on the picket line next week seeking the Government merely to come to the table to discuss pay talks. Neither will the taxi driver who gets
refused to handle fruit from apartheid South Africa, she showed leadership. The other ten Dunnes Stores workers who stood with her on the picket line showed leadership. Where she led, the State followed. This is the Minister of State's turn. He can show leadership. He can withdraw
secretaries are an essential part of those school communities. In September of last year, that they were forced to take to the picket lines. None of them wanted to be there. I would be grateful if the Taoiseach could provide an update regarding progress on resolving the dispute
while preserving the same extraordinary pay package. Contrast that for a moment with the National Ambulance Service workers who have been forced onto picket lines simply to secure modest improvements in pay and conditions and address chronic recruitment and retention problems. Front-line workers are told there
there are jobs for the NAMA lads. They can be given anything they want. Where is the fairness?
I recall standing on the picket lines with the Debenhams workers. When the Vita Cortex workers lost their jobs years ago, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael said they would make
ambulance workers should not have to strike to be heard by the Taoiseach. They should not have to stand on a picket line to fight for fair pay, recognition and basic respect, but that is what they were forced to do yesterday. They were left with no other
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