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- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: There is loads of waste. The fact that the Minister does not know that says a lot.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: It is a farce. How insulting.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: It is difficult to have to listen to this bombast again.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: The only person here who seems incapable of listening to discordant voices is on his feet.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: This will be my only chance to speak and I will speak to section 2(b). We can all throw blame back and forth with regard to messing in the process, but the Minister has been around long enough to know exactly what is going on with regard to stifling debate on this with the guillotine and the lack of a technical appendix. The Minister is a student of history and political ideology. He...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: There is nothing about which I have to make up my mind. The Minister should listen to what I am saying. What I am saying is-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: No. The Minister can be disingenuous and wilfully misunderstand if he likes, but the message is quite simple and public servants understand it. If ultimately public sector wages must fall it should only be in the context of protections for those who get pushed into poverty and arrears. It is unreasonable in my opinion to ask people to take cuts to their pay when there is so much waste...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: It is in the legislation.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: It is in the legislation.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I will finish on this point and I appreciate the indulgence of the Ceann Comhairle. Some people are-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I have read the Bill in great detail. Will the Minister explain why pensioners will be hit at €32,500? I understand the pension is half of the final wage but if we are considering a reasonable wage or income at which people should take a hit there are two completely separate rules, one for people working and earning €65,000 and one for people who have worked and are...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: It is not nebulous.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: There is loads of waste. The fact that the Minister does not know that says a lot.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: It is a farce. How insulting.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: It is difficult to have to listen to this bombast again.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: The only person here who seems incapable of listening to discordant voices is on his feet.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: The point is that it is digitally stored outside the jurisdiction. This is the key.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: It is in there also.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: This is a sensible amendment in terms of what composition would give the public the most faith in these inquiries' being as independent as the Oireachtas can ever be. The Oireachtas is controlled by the Cabinet. At committee level, that control can be micro. For example, when the finance committee was sending an invitation to Professor Patrick Honohan, Deputy Mathews tried to get the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I am not suggesting that the Opposition is any less impartial than the Government, as it is not. There are two questions. What is the right composition of a committee in order to maximise public faith in the committee? Is whatever will be agreed as robust as possible in the face of abuse from a mischievous Government?