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RABBITTE REQUESTS LRC TO INTERVENE IN ESB DISPUTE

The Minister for Communications Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte T.D., this evening said:

“After several days of discussions between ESB unions and management, no resolution of the dispute has yet emerged.

“It is unthinkable that our economic recovery should be jeopardised, domestic consumers inconvenienced and our country’s reputation undermined by a power disruption that appears to be out of all proportion to the issues in dispute. I have therefore this evening requested the Labour Relations Commission to convene the parties at the earliest possible time.

“I am now asking the parties to use the industrial relations machinery of the state to resolve the dispute and clear up any uncertainty as early as possible” Minister Rabbitte said.