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- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation is required because a financial emergency still is in existence in this State. Deputy Fleming asked some pertinent questions about the necessity for it. The first FEMPI legislation was introduced by the Government of which he was a member in 2009 when the country was in free-fall. He is right to acknowledge now...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We are borrowing €1 billion per month and the only people who are available to give us money at present have conditions attached to them.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy should let someone else speak. He should not shout people down.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Through the Chair, in a democracy, one needs people to be allowed to have different views. It is not fascism, the manner in which the Deputy shouts people down in a Parliament. We have been there.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Can I say that-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: In terms of the-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: There is neither respect for the Chair nor the House from some people. Deputy Fleming posed a valid question. He wanted me to define whether there is still an emergency in order to justify the Bill. In the Bill I amalgamate the requirements - this will be the fifth financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, item of legislation - to bring a report to the House to identify...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Five months of discussions-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Chair want me to respond to the point she allowed be made by everybody else? I am responding to the points I took from everybody else's contribution. It would be extraordinary if I was prevented from responding to the points made.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The truth is that this is reflecting what has been brokered by the Labour Relations Commission to deal with an emergency. The genesis of this is simple. One of the parting gifts this Government was left when we came in to a broken economy by the outgoing Fianna Fáil-Green Party Administration was a profile of expenditure, including many expenditure reductions, but even on top of all...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The issue is about amendments. For as long as I have been here it is the rule of the House that amendments that cause a charge on the State are not in order to be tabled by the Opposition. Deputy Healy also spoke about low paid and average paid workers. I do not know what he thinks is average pay but as I said, those on €65,000 make up 13% of the workforce.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The threshold is €65,000 above which we are making a pay cut. That is well above anybody's average working pay in this State. Deputy Nulty makes valid points about open debate.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: He is only interested in shouting people down.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: One either listens to Deputy Healy-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: -----or he will shout one down.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I want to deal with Deputy Nulty's comment, which is an important one in terms of open debate. It is important to have as much debate as we can but we have not engaged with any of the meat in this Bill so far because we have been talking in generalities. We had the second lecture in one day that I am very used to from Deputy Boyd Barrett, as if he is on the back of a lorry. However, it...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We should be dealing with the meat of the Bill. I am sorry that the offer made by the Taoiseach this morning on the Order of Business to give an additional two and a half hours to debate this Bill was not accepted. I also regret the time we have lost in terms of adjournments so far. I have given the justification for the Bill. It is necessary on the path to recovery. Deputies are right...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Deputy Fleming's amendment seeks to explicitly exclude overtime payments from the definition of remuneration being used for pay reductions being introduced in this legislation. I am happy to confirm a reference to remuneration for the purposes of the pay reduction being applied here is a reference to basic salary and fixed periodic allowances only. Overtime is neither basic salary nor a...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Please God.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Deputy Healy is wrong. He should read the Bill.