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Fri 02 Feb 2009Army will 'do its duty' to provide strike-hit services
THE CHIEF of Staff of the Defence Forces has told the soldiers’ representative body, the Permanent Defence Forces Other Ranks Representative Association (Pdforra), that the military will “do its duty” if asked by the Government to fill essential services if public servants go on strike.
Lieut Gen Dermot Earley insisted this would be the case during “informal” talks with Pdforra after it had sought assurances two weeks ago that they would not be ordered “to break” strikes by public servants angered by the Government’s plans to introduce a pension levy on State employees.
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