Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

For a number of weeks, I have signalled at the Business Committee that we need to have a debate on the renewal of the FEMPI emergency legislation. The latter is very draconian legislation which was brought in on an emergency basis to cut people's pensions and pay, make them work hours for nothing and so on. It was all justified on the basis of an emergency. That legislation is renewed each year. The emergency is over. It is a hallmark of a tin-pot dictatorship to maintain emergency legislation after emergencies end. Mubarak did it, for example. Many other regimes do it.

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