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Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (8 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that seven domestic workers employed by diplomats have complained to the Labour Relations Commission about their treatment by their employers, and that three of these cases are so serious they have been referred to the Garda anti-trafficking unit; and if he will introduce measures similar...

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (8 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when he will publish details of the new immigration regime for full-time non-EEA students [46621/10]

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Today the Government is asking us to agree to the ordering of business that will allow for the ramming through of the Social Welfare Bill that seeks to savagely strike out again at the most vulnerable in our society. Against all of that, as has just been referred to, the executives in Allied Irish Bank, a bank that is now virtually State-owned, will be paid bonuses up to a sum of some €40...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We have to get real. The Government is taking its eye off the ball in that regard for sure. Shamelessly, the Government is seeking to place the most vulnerable in the worst possible situation facing into Christmas and the New Year. There is no way we can agree to the passage of this Bill, or the ordering of what is here - let there be no mistake about it. One can look at budgets in...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and shame on the Fianna Fáil and Green Party Members for doing so.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Shortall is making an absolutely valid point which I support. The Sinn Féin Deputies absolutely object to the guillotining of this Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill. What a grand name. If ever there was a misnomer for a compendium piece of legislation, this is it. This is an enabling Bill to reduce the minimum wage. Calling it a €1 reduction, or...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The second reason I object is that the Bill facilitates a capping of the salaries for higher public servants. However, the cap is far too high at €250,000. Let us face reality here. A quarter of a million euro is too much in these circumstances-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Government has not gone far enough. These are the critical points that are wrong with the entire compendium proposal, the so-called "in the public interest" Bill. I have never heard anything as ludicrously described as this piece of legislation.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We will not support it under any circumstances.

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the real Tánaiste please stand up?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is some confusion because two answers are being given by the coalition Government. The Minister is saying it is not yet ready. Deputy Gogarty has just told the House it is finished.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If it is ready, then it is ready.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Deputy said "It is ready".

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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: These are important points. We have enough confusion when the Government tends to speak una voce but here we have a duo in operation.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Gogarty should not worry. The only old banger in here is the one he has been driving in the Green Party for years. It is just about clapped out. With regard to the Tánaiste's reply to the previous questioner, will the Finance Bill be before the Dáil on 12 January? Is that when we will address it? What is reason the Government intends running it forward to the beginning of the...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If the Tánaiste was a little more forthcoming in her replies, we would have a better idea what exactly is lying ahead of us so the Opposition could properly prepare, which we are entitled to do.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the climate change Bill be taken before this Dáil concludes, that is, before the 30th Dáil rises and Members go before the people? Will the debate on the Finance Bill start as of 12 January?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Tánaiste says it takes all this time but it took her very little time to ram forward the Social Welfare Bill and all that entails-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and the so-called Public Interest Bill - God forgive the phrase - that is to be introduced later this evening. It does not wear. Nobody is buying that.