An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2022-09-20
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Duncan Smith (LAB), Dublin Fingal

Over the next three days, thousands of SIPTU members working in the community and disability services and section 39 organisations will be taking targeted strike action in counties Cork, Kerry, Mayo, Galway and Donegal. While many public servants are balloting over the Building Momentum agreement, section 39 and community workers remain outside any formal pay negotiation mechanism and have not seen any restoration or, indeed, increase in their pay in nearly 14 years. What will the Government do finally, if anything, for these workers in order to ensure they stay in this sector providing services for the most vulnerable in our society? These organisations are losing workers to the HSE and to people and organisations outside the sector. We are facing an absolute crisis in the sector heading into this winter and into 2023.

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Sitting date: 2022-09-20