Dáil debates

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage

 

Bill entitled an Act in the public interest, to provide for-- (A) the reduction of the remuneration of certain public servants (including members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, the Judiciary and certain officeholders); (B) the reduction of the amount of the payment of pension or other benefits (other than lump sums) payable to or in respect of certain persons who are or were in the public service (including members and former members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, former members of the Judiciary and former holders of certain offices) under an occupational pension scheme or pension arrangement (by whatever name called); and (C) the alteration of the operation of scales of pay for public servants (including the suspension of the awarding, for a certain period, of increments under those scales), and to provide for related matters

6:20 pm

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Not agreed. I do not believe the Bill should be in front of the House. It is a disgrace.

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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It was agreed earlier on the Order of Business.

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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No vote was taken and no proposal or question was put to the House.

Photo of Joe O'ReillyJoe O'Reilly (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The question was agreed.

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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No. The Acting Chairman just asked the Minister to move it and asked the House to agree and I am saying I do not agree.

Photo of Joe O'ReillyJoe O'Reilly (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I must put the question then.

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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It is a disgraceful attempt to intimidate public sector workers and bully them into accepting the Minister's pay cuts.

Question put:

The Dáil divided: Tá, 72; Níl, 39.

Tellers: Tá, Deputies Joe Carey and Emmet Stagg; Níl, Deputies Seán Ó Fearghaíl and Aengus Ó Snodaigh.

Níl

Question declared carried.