Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

I have serious concerns with this legislation. I believe it to be unconstitutional on the question of the extension of the financial emergency for a further three years. It has constitutional difficulties with the non-restoration of pensions and the withholding of €95 million of pension entitlements, which are effectively the property of individuals. I am satisfied some of the sections are anti- trade union, attempting to force trade unions and their members into an agreement of which they do not want to be part. All they want is to be able to abide by the existing agreements into which they have entered. These sections also propose to punish those unions and trade unionists on this. I have serious concerns about this Bill.

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