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- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: So do I.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: There were 24 hours-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----to submit amendments.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: Three quarters of those amendments are being ruled out of order. It is absolutely outrageous.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: It is an affront to democracy and the House. The Minister had the affrontery to cut the pensions of pensioners-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----and surviving spouses without consulting them.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: The Minister is simply-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: We are being denied an opportunity to discuss this Bill.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: This is a disgrace.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: This is an attack on the freedom of workers to join a trade union.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: This Bill is an attack on workers' right to freely associate.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: It is absolutely disgraceful.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: He has no respect for the traditions of the Labour Party.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: On a point of order-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----I wish to call a quorum.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: First, I wish to put on record my protest at the absolute affront to democracy that is being perpetrated in the House today and since last Thursday. The Bill is a very important one that attacks public sector workers and circumscribes the right to free association.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: The Bill is unconstitutional and it is also in conflict with-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----international human rights legislation. The Bill was published last Thursday and amendments had to be tabled within 24 hours. A total of 51 amendments have been ruled out of order, many of them for no good reason. The manner in which the Bill is being rammed through the House with a guillotine is an affront to democracy. Deputy Joe Higgins can speak for himself. He tabled an...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: If he believes that, and given this Bill is named in that manner, why in this Bill does the Minister attack ordinary middle and low-income public servants?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Séamus Healy: It also affects private sector workers, because 5,000 or more such workers will lose their jobs as a result of the money being extracted out of the economy under this Bill. As a Labour Party Minister, why does the Minister not target the 10,000 highest earners in the country? The Minister for Finance recently informed me they earn €5.9 billion per year or an average of...