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Fri 11 Nov 2009Public sector strike to limit operation of Oireachtas
THE SEANAD will not sit next Tuesday and the operation of the Dáil will be curtailed as a result of the national strike by civil and public servants in protest at Government proposals to cut pay.
It is also expected that courts around the country will not operate while in the State’s prisons, inmates are likely to be locked in their cells for two one-hour periods in the morning and in the afternoon as prison officers take part in the industrial action.
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