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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Jim Walsh: I ask the Leader to have the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport come to the House at an early date. There has been a very successful promotion of the Wild Atlantic Way but unfortunately this is skewing business away from other areas. I refer in particular to the south east, which will be familiar to the Leader. We are also part of the Atlantic coast but unfortunately we do not...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Jim Walsh: -----person involved from the UN committee being interviewed. It was a very soft interview by a very good interviewer for whom I have good regard but who unfortunately on this occasion failed to put the difficult questions. The interviewee was allowed to get away with all sorts of disingenuous statements. On the other hand, a representative of the pro-life organisation was rightly...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I wish to add my voice to those who have raised the issue of lone parents. It is appalling that many families who, as we know from the statistics, struggle economically to rear their children and make ends meet, as well as being below the poverty line, are being abandoned by the Government. As Senator Healy Eames said, the Minister gave a commitment that none of this would be triggered...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: For 40 years.

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am sure he, like many of us in this House, draws on the experience of his local authority days when it comes to housing matters. The Wexford County Council officials to whom I have spoken readily acknowledge that they have never seen the housing situation as bad as it is now both in respect of the homeless numbers and the number of people on...

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: How much public housing has been built in the past four years?

Seanad: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: This Government cut capital expenditure, removing money that could have been invested in housing and providing jobs at a time when it would have been economically right to do so.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I second the amendment. This comes after subsection 5, which states that if a trade union that is party to the agreement is no longer substantially representative of the workers concerned, the court may cancel the agreement. Could the Minister of State clarify how this applies? I have dealt with the Labour Court on many occasions over the years. Some businesses are fully unionised, which...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I second the amendment for the purpose of the debate. I was not a great fan of many of the JLCs. Most of them came about because of social partnership, which played a significant role in involving unions and workers, employers, farmers and others in the recovery from the economic recession in the 1980s. Social partnership was a strong contributory feature of the growth in the 1990s and the...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I second the amendment. In terms of pensions, there have been instances in which people with deferred pensions and others have been disadvantaged and left feeling totally unrepresented. Many of these people have given long service to the company that they were part of and had paid subscriptions to their unions for many years. They felt a bit betrayed and unrepresented when agreements were...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I second the amendment. I was not here on Committee Stage as I was asked at short notice to stand in this evening. I have not heard the actual arguments, but I accept the point Senator Cullinane has just made. The deletion of these lines is a proposal I would like to hear arguments about. The amendment implies that the court in any adjudication of a dispute may have regard to similar...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (14 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I have come new to this today, but it is an area in which I have a keen interest because working in ports involves quite a degree of industrial relations management. My colleague who proposed today's amendments will be well aware of the difficulties, because in New Ross we gained considerable traffic and tonnage over the years due to the appalling industrial relations in the Port of...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: I might have made this call before, but obviously it is not going to happen this side of the recess. I ask the Leader for a meeting with the Minister for Finance where we would have a pre-budget debate. It would be interesting to get the diverse views of the Members of the House on aspects of the budget. I saw last week while I was away that there was some comment about inheritance tax....

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: And the public.

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Jul 2015)

Jim Walsh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit go dtí an Teach inniu. I want to make three or four brief points. Everybody prefaced what they said by saying they would be brief but they did not always succeed; I suppose that is the nature of us as politicians. I concur with what Senator O'Brien said, and he articulated the point well without me embellishing it, but I believe the...