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Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

David Norris: How does it change the nature of the Bill?

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

David Norris: Is the Minister of State saying decisions are made about parliamentary legislation outside the House by interested bodies?

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

David Norris: It is.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

David Norris: I am reserving it for Report Stage.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

David Norris: I move amendment No. 139: In page 70, after line 12, to insert the following:“(4) Section 7(2)(b) of the Payment of Wages Act 1991 shall be deleted. (5) The National Minimum Wage Act 2000 is amended:(a) in section 24(2) by the deletion of the words "referred to or" after the word "be", (b) in section 24 by the insertion of a new subsection after subsection (2):"(2A)(a) In the event...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

David Norris: I do not accept the Minister of State's reasoning but I will withdraw the amendment and consider putting it forward on Report Stage.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: I rise to raise something that I feel very strongly about, and I am sure, and hope, that my colleagues in this House will feel equally strongly about the matter. I refer to the surreptitious attempt by management in the Oireachtas to cut the wages of ushers by 5.6% without reference to either House of the Oireachtas. This is an absolute outrage, particularly when the Tánaiste has said...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: There are people in this House who live in County Dublin but get €25,000 in travelling expenses, which is more than somebody who joins the usher service would receive. We pay tribute to them on a regular basis in this House. We say how wonderful they are and talk about the way they look after us, and yes, indeed, they do. We are all part of a family and, therefore, are responsible...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: Yes, but we have an input into it. To hell with the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission. Damn them if they are going to do this.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: If they are going to put the screws on the ordinary workers in this House, then there is a moral obligation on us to protest about it.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: Why not?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: We can make statements on the matter. We can make statements on the colour of the sky if we feel like doing so. It is entirely within our powers to have statements. How can the Cathaoirleach say we cannot make statements on this matter?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: Nonsense; they are proposed. Come on.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: That is the fattest one I have heard in a very long time. They are proposed. Everybody has a right to propose amendments to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: The Leader accepts them or rejects them.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: That is why I am proposing it. I request humbly that the Government, in the interests of the structures of this House, hold such a debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: That does not matter. We can still make statements. We make statements on all kinds of things that are not the responsibility of members of the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: Not at all. Statements are made by ordinary Members of this House. We had statements yesterday and it was not down to the Minister but the ordinary Members of this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: I am putting it anyway.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

David Norris: I ask the Leader to find a way in which we can reflect our disgust at the treatment of our fellow workers in this establishment.