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Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I want the Minister to answer that question. I also want to address a cost the Minister is going to impose on the Exchequer as a result of his not negotiating with lecturers, particularly with those in institutes of technology. Lecturers are doing 18 to 20 hours lecturing a week. Come next summer, when the Minister may not honour the moneys due to others, and then come next September, when...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They are, however, honouring the hours at the moment which is significant. My final question is on casual teacher staffing. Thousands of young teachers under 35 are on part-time hours. They have insecure employment, low hours or both. With respect, I spoke to the Minister’s official outside the Chamber and I have checked it again. There is disagreement over the Minister’s...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The casualisation of staffing arrangements in the teaching profession is leading to talent loss. If the teachers in question will not be linked into the Lansdowne Road agreement, they will move. Half of the current home economics graduates from St. Angela’s College, Sligo, have gone into the food industry because they will have more job security and better pay in it. This is a fact....

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Good.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Can the Minister say what the effect is for a person on €40,000?

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Exactly and those hours are spread thinly over a number of days.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister would need to tell Sinn Féin.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: After six years of education?

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Not enough at all.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that some of the issues the Minister responded to were perhaps outside the remit of the Bill, however, they were part of the Second Stage debate and there were unanswered questions.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They have been raised by many people, public servants in the context of the Bill. I appreciate the Minister’s understanding of the damage that casualisation can do to the teaching profession. It is a huge problem because we are losing talent. If we lose the talent standards go down. We cannot say that often enough. The Minister did not address the impact of the Bill on the...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Touché.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The need to promote peace across the globe is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Here in Ireland, issues relating to our national security are deserving of priority. One of the key underlying factors that is fuelling the activities of ISIS is the radicalisation of Muslim youth, a phenomenon to which Ireland is not immune. According to Deputy Alan Shatter, former Minister for...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: With respect, it is important that I put these questions. Will the Leader invite the Minister for Education and Skills to the House to discuss the teaching of world religions in schools as part of the religious education curriculum, with a view to issuing guidelines in that regard? Second, will the Leader invite the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to the House for a debate on...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister. I listened to his contribution in my office and heard him say that something is being given back to all public servants with the lower paid getting the most proportionately. In principle I thought that sounded fair and reasonable. When I look at the detail and dig down there are a number of punitive measures in the Bill that are quite objectionable and it is not...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am referring to these people.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, but I am. Let me speak to this measure.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand the INTO has but what I am trying to say is that the Minister is hitting at the democratic right of people to say "No" and is punishing them for exercising their right to say "Yes" or "No". This could lead to a loss of thousands of euro for teachers and lecturers throughout their career. This threat is disproportionate and wrong and it must be stopped but the effect of this is...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: To be fair, I have the floor. I would like to ask the Minister the question and he might address it in his summing up.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: If that teacher voted "No" to the Lansdowne Road agreement will he or she receive the €1,000 for substitution and supervision work? That is my question to the Minister. If not, the Minister is punishing such teachers for exercising their democratic right. If teachers do not carry out the substitution and supervision work, somebody will have to do it and they will have to be paid....