I met with the National Advocacy Service, NAS, outside the gates today. Its staff have resumed a strike. It is an independent service that deals with clients who were in institutions or inappropriate accommodation, who are very vulnerable people, and the NAS tries to advocate to ensure their human rights are respected. The staff have not had a pay rise in 14 years. They went to the Labour Court some time ago and sought conditions similar to those of others who operate in the same kind of areas.

They were awarded a favourable recommendation some time ago. This has not been respected. We cannot have a situation where we have an organisation in respect of which the industrial relations apparatus of the State is in abeyance. I seek an intervention or even a short debate on this tomorrow.

I agree with Deputy Murphy's comments on the NAS. It is vital that we debate it. I also want to raise Committee Stage of the Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024, which is scheduled for debate tomorrow. A request has been made that additions be made to it so that it encompasses the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, the International Protection Act, the Broadcasting Act 2009 and the Judicial Appointments Commission Act 2023. The Bill will have a huge name and will undergo a complete change. It is adding to the Bill and it will not be the same Bill. The Government is putting through all of these amendments on Committee Stage. It is completely wrong and shows disrespect for the House. It is something that should not happen but it is something that happens every July in the House. We see it every year and the Government is completely wrong with it.

I add my voice to the call for a short debate on the situation with the NAS. These workers provide a vital service for people with disabilities. They have not had an increase in their basic rate of pay for more than a decade. They have been forced out on the picket lines because their employers, and standing behind their employers the Department of Social Protection, will not implement a Labour Court recommendation. We got lectures in here last week about the sanctity of the Labour Court and here we have a Labour Court recommendation that the employers and the Department standing behind them are not implementing. The Department should intervene and settle this on the terms recommended to benefit the workers in terms of their wages and their conditions.

I am also very concerned on behalf of our group with the amount of legislation being dealt with this week and the amalgamation of three pieces of legislation into one and amendments being subsumed. It is not a way to do business. There is no proper scrutiny of these pieces of legislation. I support the NAS workers whom I met outside the gates earlier. They are out in large numbers on a very inclement day. It is a shocking situation that they have not had a wage increase in almost a decade and a half. It is not acceptable. Of course there have been Labour Court interventions - we have seen this with Aer Lingus - and rightly so. These people have had no increase in comparison to the 17.5% offered to Aer Lingus workers. It is not acceptable that we allow these things to happen in many areas of our country at present in many aspects of working life. If people do not shout or do not have the power to call strikes, they do not have any power at all. We need a debate on the NAS. I object to the Order of Business on that basis.