Departmental Offices
Dail Éireann — 2023-05-30
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

Mark my words and somebody keep this for the future, in the unlikely event they ever form a government.
To answer the question asked by Deputies Paul Murphy and Bríd Smith, in my view strikes are best avoided and they are always resolved in the end. They can be resolved bilaterally through talks. They can be resolved at the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, or at the Labour Court. This is how the Government intervenes using its offices, the Labour Court and the WRC.
Uisce Éireann will not be privatised. This is in law already. We have committed to a referendum as well but we have not yet come up with wording.

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Sitting date: 2023-05-30