TD to apologise and withdraw his comments which accused public servants of using the Covid-19 crisis as an excuse to “lie on the couch and watch box sets”.
Mr MacSharry was speaking during a debate on legislation about the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment. In a statement on Thursday, the association said public and civil servants all over the country have reached out to them to complain about Mr MacSharry’s comments. He admitted his allegations would draw “anger from many of the hard working people who were in the spare bedroom or kitchen tables over the past period of time” but insisted they had to be voiced.Speaking to RTÉ’s Today with Sarah McInerney, Mr MacSharry said his remarks “clearly don’t apply to all” public servants, but added “it doesn’t take from my view, in terms of this point needing to be made.
Citing one example of an unidentified government agency declining to answer a query for him last week, Mr MacSharry said continued office closures in some agencies “go beyond the public advice”.Asked if workers in the private sector, such as Google, for example, where staff can work from home until next year, are lying on couches watching box sets, he replied: “Perhaps they are. I don’t know.”
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