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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.

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.

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.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Property Taxation Collection (29 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in the event of money being deducted from social welfare payments for the local property tax as provided for in the Act, the maximum amount that could be deducted from each of the social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25867/13]

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Better Leon Trotsky than Joseph Stalin.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Give us a break.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is pure dishonesty. We proposed a wealth tax and it is well the Tánaiste knows it.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because half the population has left the country.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some 300,000 people have emigrated.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle is quite right.

Order of Business (30 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Order of Business (30 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----

Order of Business (30 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to make the point of order that Deputy Catherine Murphy raised yesterday.