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- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not at all. I just said I am not going to do that.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was being totally specific. You have just allowed another member to talk about a totally different amendment. I just said I am not going to talk about amendment No. 15 because we will be talking about it in a minute. I am talking about the amendment-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not on amendment No. 15. We are on amendment No. 14.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My apologies.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Then I will talk on amendment No. 15, although I had been dealing with amendment No. 14. My initial comments were about amendment No. 14 before I moved on to amendment No. 15.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have not got an answer from the Minister on the point about the defectiveness of the legislation itself, on its own terms. Setting aside amendment No. 15, which I will come to in a moment, the legislation is not clear in its execution of its own intent. That is the very specific point I am making. That is what we are dealing with. The Minister stated that the legislation would not...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a different point and, to be honest, a more legitimate debate. I refer to the difficulty of one-----
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a more legitimate debate.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My view is that there is a real debate to be had on the extreme difficulty posed if two children and their mother or father or both must go to two schools at the same time because they could not both be enrolled in the same one. One can understand the very practical case for having two siblings attend the same school to make transport relatively easy and in order that parents do not have to...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but I am not afraid to lose votes if I believe something is right. The Deputy is absolutely right that I will get flak in my constituency over this, but sometimes one has to say something is right, regardless of whether one will get a bit of flak.
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not see the case in rural areas. I totally understand the case to be made for having siblings attend the same school in rural or urban areas. I understand the difficulty even more in rural areas. Having to bring children to two villages or towns could be a real hassle. It is not necessary, however, for somebody in a rural or an urban area to go to the same school as his or her...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 37:In page 7, line 22, to delete "or".
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want to elaborate the debate we have already had but is this not a terribly topsy turvy way to do things? We are writing legislation which we know we will have to change all the way through on one of the most substantive issues it develops. Would it not have made sense to run these things together?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeframe for the publication and enactment of legislation dealing with low-hour contracts and precarious work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30475/17]
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I stated during the week, it is the hallmark of a tin-pot dictatorship to retain emergency legislation after the emergency is officially over. Mubarak did it for 25 years and it is done in all sorts of tyrannical and dictatorial-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. That is what is being done, as this is emergency legislation when the emergency is over, even according to the Government. What is the legislation designed to do? It is to bully and intimidate public sector workers, create a two-tier pay structure and accelerate the race to the bottom. The FEMPI legislation is a textbook example of what Naomi Klein called the shock doctrine. This...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a neo-liberal wet dream and the parties want to hold on to it.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The truth hurts.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because of the interruptions.