There are 16,000 security officers in this country. They were recognised during Covid as being essential workers. However, they remain very low-paid workers involved in stressful work, in many cases working up to 60 hours a week. They were due to get a very small pay increase to €12.50 an hour under an employment regulation order, ERO. However, three security companies, namely, Top Security, Las and Morbury, took a case to seek and were granted, scandalously, an ex parte injunction to stop the ERO coming into effect. Top Security is a company that receives public contracts. These three companies are happy for their workers to remain in poverty conditions while they continue to make profits. So far, the Government has not responded to this. We have a press statement acknowledging it. Why does the Government not go to court and challenge the injunction so that workers get what they are owed?

I apologise. What is the key point?

The ERO was stopped by an injunction, but the Government so far has not challenged the injunction.

That will work its way through the courts.

But-----

We are not having an interaction. We will just have the response.

I was just trying to get the point that the Deputy was asking about, to be fair. I appreciate the clarity.

Instead of waiting for the substantial case, which appears to be the Government approach, the Government can go and challenge it. It was an ex parte injunction, so it can turn up and say that it is a party-----

We will take legal advice on all of that, as the Government ordinarily does.