Public sector workers will strike on Wednesday despite a final plea from Government for unions to enter into talks to work out a new pay deal.

Pat Leahy, political editor with the Irish Times, Joe Neville, Fine Gael TD for Kildare North, and Linda Kelly, general secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI), join The Last Word to discuss how the impasse can be resolved.

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