National Advocacy Service Seanad Éireann — 2024-07-09 ============================================================ Emer Higgins (FG), Dublin Mid-West As the Senator will be aware, talks which were led by Kevin Duffy broke down on Friday without agreement and strike action has now recommenced. That is the reason for that. It is deeply unfortunate and will undoubtedly impact people with disabilities. We do not want that to happen and we do not want that to continue. I understand a number of offers were made over the course of the four-day talks----- --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2024-07-09/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:53:11+00:00 Sitting date: 2024-07-09