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- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: Will the Acting Chairman stop the clock please?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: Will the Acting Chairman please stop the clock?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: That is an extraordinary instruction and one which has never been heard in this House. It is an extraordinary instruction.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: I am told it is Deputy Niall Collins' speciality.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: Shout me down but I will continue to make my argument. To Sinn Féin and anybody else who is listening to this debate, I wish to state that talk about unwinding FEMPI in one go, proceeding with a gentle unwinding of it or easing an item of emergency legislation out of existence is nonsense. FEMPI must be got rid of. I say this not just because it discriminates - it creates unequal...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: Deputies and Secretaries General should not get restoration but the lower paid should. The legislation is based on a series of lies. The first is that the financial emergency and the recession were caused by overspending on public sector workers. That is not true. However, the solution was to cut pay, pensions and working conditions. These people include nurses, doctors, firefighters and...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: The most pernicious lie is when we are told that if we restore the rights of teachers and firefighters, we would have to cut services. I have spoken about how 11 beds have been cut from the Linn Dara unit because the HSE cannot recruit or retain nurses to provide adolescent psychiatric care. This is because the HSE does not pay nurses enough and treats them unequally. As a result, nurses...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: North Korea.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: We are owed at least one minute.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: Is that the whole lot of it?
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: I am aware.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: He is a good Deputy.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: Buttons.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: Yes, if the corporations were taxed.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: I said buttons to the corporations.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: The Minister said that last year.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: Tax the corporations. That is what we argued for.
- Protection of Employees (Collective Redundancies) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: It is very telling that any serious legislation to deal with what happened in Clerys does not come from the Government but the Opposition. Staff were given 30 minutes' notice to pack up their stuff and leave. Some had worked for 40 years and I used to be employed by Mandate and knew many of them. Clerys sold the company for €1 and the building itself was subsequently sold for...
- Protection of Employees (Collective Redundancies) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: Irish industrial law.
- Protection of Employees (Collective Redundancies) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2017)
Bríd Smith: Absolutely.