The Taoiseach said earlier he cared about workers. Where is this Government's respect for 27,000 section 39 workers who look after the disabled, elderly and vulnerable and who still have not received the 8% pay rise agreed in the WRC and who still do not have the parity that was promised with workers employed directly by the health service? I was talking this morning to home care workers who are section 39 workers. They work in Ballymun with the vulnerable, people with dementia and people with disabilities. Some of them are getting a lesser hourly rate, and they are low-paid workers, than they were getting in 2008 when the austerity cuts were imposed on them. They have never had their pay restored. They have never got cost-of-living increases and they still have not got their 8%. What sort of respect is the Taoiseach's Government showing for 27,000 section 39 workers by not ensuring they get the pay increases they deserve?

The Minister, Deputy Foley, has brought that issue and we anticipate it now will be dealt with in the context of the WRC. My understanding is the WRC suspended talks for the duration of the general election. My understanding is also, and my hope, those talks will resume very quickly with a view to getting a resolution of this issue and a just resolution of it. We will be focusing on that.