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- Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the case of workers in the Jane Norman chain who were ejected from their jobs in an almost identical manner to that which occurred in the La Senza chain, when the company was put into administration in June 2011, and where to date the workers have still not been paid approximately a...
- Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she raised the issue of growing poverty and inequality resulting from austerity with her European counterparts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39783/11]
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To swap metaphors with the previous speaker, the Government side in this debate reminds me of the captain of the Italian ship that sank recently because he was so busy trying to impress his friends onshore that he could not face the fact of a massive gaping hole in the side of his ship or that it was going down. The reality is that the Government is keeping the country on an unsustainable...
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Government is doing.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation in the context of the treatment of workers in Vita Cortex, La Senza and Lagan Brick and other similar cases such as the Jane Norman chain in mid 2011, in which workers are denied the rights and entitlements by employers, the measures and legislation he proposes to put in place to ensure that such occurrences are not...
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am taking Deputy Halligan's question.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am taking Deputy Halligan's question.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that the only reason these issues are even being discussed is that workers took action and forced a response from this Government. I refer specifically to the cases of Vita Cortex, La Senza and Lagan Brick. The issue raised by those struggles is what the Government will do to prevent a recurrence of this. Workers want the Minister to ensure that workers who are owed...
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the month's wages that were not paid?
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I wish to ask a supplementary question.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are entitled to ask supplementary questions.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No way. My question is on the Order Paper and I am entitled to ask a supplementary question.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could you explain to me, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, why I am not entitled to a supplementary question?
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am one of them.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You are selecting three Members.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is the time not divided evenly?
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, and I am one of them.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Am I getting a supplementary question?