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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am returning to the issue of equal pay for equal work. As the Minister knows, members of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland are balloting this month. Quite rightly, the association's central executive is recommending the rejection of the Government's proposals. The Government is continuing to refuse to commit to the simple principle of equal pay for equal work for which...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With respect, the Minister's waffle is not an answer to my question about equal pay for equal work. Under the new proposals, a person who started teaching after 2011 will earn €6,000 less in his or her first year of teaching than somebody doing the same job who happened to come in before 2011. That figure will be €5,800 in the second and third years of teaching and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The message the Government is sending when it issues this threat is "it is our way or the highway". I remind the House that no trade unionist ever had a ballot on the system of pay apartheid that was unilaterally imposed by the Government to deny young people equal pay for equal work. Given that new-entrant nurses are receiving 10% less pay than existing nurses, is the Minister surprised...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the source of the money to bring forward pay restoration for public sector workers earning below €65,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3416/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is that we do not accept the Minister must rob Peter to pay Paul. Workers are entitled to pay restoration, even in excess of the proposed €1,000, but we do not accept that money should be taken from services to fund that. We are seeking a commitment that services which are starved of funding will not be hit as a result of this measure. The Minister likes to ask where else...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that literally or figuratively?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us be clear. I want to see pay restoration and a hell of a lot more of it. I was talking to some of the service officers in here and they are nearly crying as a result of some of the pay levels they have to put up with. They need this pay. What I do not like, which was implicit in what the Minister said, is that it is essentially one or the other - it is services that are cash starved...
- Topical Issue Debate: Film Industry (26 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, is aware, Ardmore Studios is synonymous with the Irish film industry. It is, in effect, the birthplace of the Irish film industry as an industry. Since it opened in 1958, it has propelled Irish film making into the top flight of film making in the world. 4 o’clock It has played host to some of the greatest actors in the world - Richard...
- Topical Issue Debate: Film Industry (26 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: At many levels, I welcome what the Minister says, but there are a few details I would like to hear to be more assured. First, there should be absolutely no consideration of the Government selling its stake in Ardmore. Critical to maintaining it is for the Government to retain that stake. The zoning itself is not sufficient protection because the facility could be bought, somebody could...
- Topical Issue Debate: Film Industry (26 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The workers have the expertise.
- Topical Issue Debate: Film Industry (26 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not asking for Enterprise Ireland.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (26 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 143. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that spinal muscular atrophy type 1 sufferers (details supplied) can urgently access nusinersen, Spinraza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3580/17]
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. I am fully aware the Business Committee met last week and agreed the business for today and this week, but over the weekend since the meeting a matter of extreme urgency has intervened and I ask the Government and the House to consider the need for us to change this week's order to discuss it. Obviously I am speaking about President Donald Trump's travel ban, which I and...
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----at our own airports. What is happening at our airports is important. We do not even have clarity on this issue. I appeal to the Government and the House to have a debate on the implications of the travel ban for the world and specifically for this country this week as a matter of absolute urgency.
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: An e-mail was sent to the Business Committee.
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not on the Business Committee.
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a point of order. On our behalf, Deputy Barry circulated an e-mail this morning to all members of the Business Committee requesting this debate, so that communication to the Business Committee has already occurred. It was suggested that we had not done that courtesy, but we did it this morning.
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite my very considerable disappointment that the Government failed to support Deputy Broughan's motion last week on the need for an immediate commission of investigation on the Stardust tragedy, the Government motion passed and that committed to certain things. These include the appointment of an independent judicial figure and following that the possibility of a commission of...
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When?