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- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: No. Deputy Murphy is putting words in my mouth. I can see the Deputy has already acknowledged that he is wrong.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: What I said is that those people who voted for the Lansdowne Road agreement simply voted for that agreement.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I did not make any reference to FEMPI.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: In relation to the latter point, Deputy Murphy put to me his concerns regarding the process being anti-democratic. What would be anti-democratic is a failure to take account of the fact that the majority of unions have voted for the agreement. That is what I have done.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: What the Deputy has put to me is how we make use of the benefits of a recovery that he alleged would never happen.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Paul Murphy said in the House on a number of occasions that the very kind of change in the economy that is enabling this would never happen, and because it is now happening, we are in a position to hire 18,000 more public servants-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and to honour the commitments we have made.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The latter question is a matter for the Business Committee of the Dáil, as Deputy Boyd Barrett well knows. The ordering of the business is now done by this House rather than by me as Minister or by the Government. It is a matter for the House. As the adjectives the Deputy ascribes to me get more extreme, could we just look at some of the points and facts about the Lansdowne Road...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The figures are very clear. The moment one puts facts on the record, those who call for new politics the loudest do not want to hear. They want to stop the discussion.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The facts are clear. The benefit for people who are earning €23,000 per year is an 8.7% increase.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: That is needed in recognition of the contribution those people make every day in the delivery of public services.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I go back to many of the points-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: When one attempts to put arguments to the people who tabled questions, they have no interest in what one has to say.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I have said again and again-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and I am happy to do so again, in case the Deputy did not hear me when I said it earlier, that I recognise the huge contribution public servants make in classrooms-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and offices, the Garda-----
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I recognise that again and again. Our ability to restore their wages and to increase them over time does depend on the future ability of the State to pay for that.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The annual cost to the State of all the measures the Deputies are asking me to repeal is more than €2 billion.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 24, 25, 29, 39 and 53 togther. I have already touched on some of the points regarding the justification for renewal of the legislation. I will not read the text of my reply again because the Deputy is already familiar with it, and I will not waste his time and the time of those in the Gallery by not responding to the questions. On the particular point...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)
Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy accused me of acting in bad faith. If I stood up in the House and said the negotiations and discussions were not on the way he would condemn me for that, as he has done in the past. I am now confirming that the discussions began yesterday. The Deputy used a crucial phrase in saying that the embargo was gone. We now have the ability to hire more public servants to take on...