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- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is making a joke of democracy.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is precisely to protest about the joke the Government is making of democracy and the way it is conducting this debate that-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a sham of a democracy.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has completely subverted the democratic process.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a sham of democracy.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You are not going to get away with this without us hitting out.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is monstrous. The Minister should be ashamed of himself.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a sham of democracy.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government knows it is manipulating the democratic process.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has no respect for workers or trade unionists.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to object in the strongest terms possible to the ruling out of these amendments. I submitted 25 amendments to this Bill and 24 have been ruled out of order. That is in the context of a Bill which is being rammed through with a guillotine, which is undemocratic in its very nature in that it attempts to put a gun to the head of trade unionists in this country. It is making a sham of...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of the first amendments-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The time is a joke anyway.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but the whole thing is a joke. We voted against this guillotine-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----earlier because what this Government is doing is a disgraceful subversion of the democratic process-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----namely, imposing a guillotine.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government continues to do this.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It shows the arrogance of this Government which thinks it can play fast and loose with democracy because it has a majority.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is really outrageous that the Labour Party-----