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- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We would get more sense from the back of a lorry.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yet another one.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 20:In page 6, line 24, column 2, to delete “9 per cent” and substitute “15 per cent”.The point of the amendment is shift the burden of cuts and adjustment onto those on higher salaries of over €100,000 per year. It was linked to amendments that sought to remove the Minister's intention to further cut the salaries of those under...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Core pay.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My heart breaks for him.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How will he manage?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is from an obscene level.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister made an important admission in his response to the amendments I and others have tabled on the section. He stated he costed our amendments and I thank him very much for doing so because we certainly did not have time as we had less than 24 hours between seeing the Bill and the deadline for amendments.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course. What else could we do given the time available? It is interesting that it was not a bad shot in the dark considering, because the Minister stated if he agreed to these amendments they would gather €400 million, that is 40% of the adjustment, and shift the adjustment from those earning less than €100,000 to those earning more than €100,000. It would still...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister will change his mind now.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All right, but am I supposed to be able to read the Minister's mind?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The point has been made. I will let matters proceed.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not understand why my amendment on section 2B was ruled out of order because it would not impose a charge on the Exchequer and it was not declaratory.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems there is a third string to the exclusion bow but we will deal with it later. Section 2B is the draconian heart of the Bill.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, the last section demonstrated the injustice of imposing the burden of cuts and adjustments on people earning less than €100,000. This section is the draconian heart of the Bill because it is essentially telling public sector workers that the Government will negotiate with them as long as there is agreement. If the workers dare to disagree, the Government will inflict whatever it...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a real attack. This is anti-trade union legislation. It is not only anti-low and middle income worker legislation or a specific austerity measure. It is about giving draconian powers to the Government and future Governments to attack by fiat the conditions of trade unionists over their heads and making a mockery of the basic principles of trade unionism.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister was heckling me a moment ago.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have received a lot more from the Minister.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a side issue.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I said.