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Departmental Bodies (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason this is important is because these same directors and the chairman the Minister mentioned are trying to impose between pay cuts of between 20% and 30% on workers earning a fraction of what they do. They have also forcibly made redundant five harbour police, with whom they are also involved in a dispute because they made a mistake and overpaid them and are now seeking the money...

Departmental Bodies (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about the CEO.

Departmental Bodies (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They guys giving them the axe are being paid €168,000 per year.

Written Answers — Industrial Disputes: Industrial Disputes (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take in the current dispute between a company (details supplied) and its permanent workforce in Dún Laoghaire calling on the company to insure that all redundancies sought will be purely voluntary and that those workers who wish to seek redeployment or remain with the company will be accommodated; and if he...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I need a lot more than that to say what I have to say. It is pleasant to begin by welcoming the basic aspiration of this legislation, which is to ensure that the rights and entitlements of agency workers should be equivalent to those who are directly employed. That is a very laudable and long overdue measure. In that context, I am disappointed at the reservations or outright opposition of...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, it refers to union representation.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am working off notes from Unite trade union so I will have to examine it, but according to section 7 the Labour Court shall not approve a collective agreement unless in the opinion of the court the representative body is sufficiently representative of agency workers.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but it mentions agency workers. Unite states that the proportion being considered is 90%. Even if it is less than 90% it will be very difficult for unions to have a high level of representation among agency workers because unions tend to organise in the workplace in the organisation or body and not among the agency workers. How can they be organised? It would be extremely difficult...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I referred to section 6(2).

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My point relates to section 6(2) and concerns the Swedish derogation.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about section 6(2)?

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I referred to section 6(2).

Private Members' Business. Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There were many cruel and senseless measures announced in the December budget, almost all of which were directed at or disproportionately hit the disadvantaged. However, the threat of swingeing cuts to DEIS schemes which provide a life-line for some of our most vulnerable young people is surely one of the cruelest and most senseless measures considered by the Government. The Minister is...

Private Members' Business. Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the cuts proceed, more people will end up in prison and on the streets and immense damage will be done to the social fabric of the country. I do not understand how the Minister does not choke on phrases such as "liberate through education" and "children first" when robbing the resources that are necessary to put children first. The Labour Party should be ashamed of itself. Those...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to his Department in terms of medical cards envisioned by the abolition of concurrent payments of social welfare in Budget 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1281/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the additional efficiency target to save €50 million that have been set for disability, mental health and child care services in Budget 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1280/12]

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As everybody in the country is painfully aware, from the comfort of the Merrion Hotel the so-called troika is injecting the poison of austerity into the economy and inflicting it on citizens. I ask the Taoiseach, at the very least, to publicly invite the troika to this Chamber-----

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----for a special sitting of the Dáil-----

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- or the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform to enable the people who are actually directing the legislative programme of this country-----

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- and dictating economic policy for citizens-----