Cabinet meet to consider joining public service strikes
The Cabinet is divided over whether its members should join in the series of public service strikes announced by trade unions yesterday.
Members of the cabinet will meet today to decide whether to join the striking workers.
“It could go either way,” a senior minister said. “Most of us think we have every right to strike and are keen to do so but one or two junior ministers seem to think it would look bad.”
Meanwhile, the minister said the resignation of Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism Martin Cullen, the third minister to go in recent weeks, would have no impact on the Government.
“We have the country running smoothly,” he said. “This government is such a well-oiled machine you’d have it hard to notice if we all resigned in the morning.”