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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is to link the pay of people in here to average industrial earnings. That is our proposal, that is our policy and that is what we campaigned for. I agree with the Minister on higher paid civil servants. That would also nauseate people. Low and middle-income earners, the vast bulk of public servants, were savaged with FEMPI but those cuts did not mean the same for the super-well-paid...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the forgoing of the pay rise for all public representatives as part of a Covid-19 solidarity measure will be agreed to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26939/20]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On what planet is it okay for politicians earning extraordinarily high salaries - €96,000 in the case of Deputies - to get a pay increase when hundreds of thousands of workers have seen their incomes decimated or jobs completely eliminated as a result of Covid-19 and the measures the Government has imposed, and when the Government has cut the pandemic unemployment payments of many...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Covid emergency did not stop the Minister from giving a €16,000 increase to the super junior Ministers, which is absolutely outrageous. The ordinary public servants who were robbed to pay for the bailout of the banks should get their pay restored. Indeed, it should have been restored long before now but the idea that politicians on extraordinarily handsome salaries of...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Within People Before Profit our policy is that politicians should be paid the average industrial wage and that is what happens internally. That means we are in the same position as the people we represent and have a vested interest in representing the collective and not just looking after ourselves. That is our policy. In the case of the 2%, we will be handing it back to the Exchequer...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. I will not waste the House's time with another vote as people will want to get on with other business but we had a discussion about the length of time that would be made available for the debates on Covid and on the winter plan. A number of members of the Business Committee made it clear that we wanted a slot of two hours and ten minutes for each debate and that we wanted...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry; I meant to say the slots should be 210 minutes long rather than 1 hour and 45 minutes.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry; I meant 210 minutes as against one hour and 45 minutes.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not agree but I will not call a vote.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If we had decent jobs instead of bogus self-employment in forestry then I might agree with Deputy McGrath.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Most of them upheld.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They got grants.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is wrecking the industry as it is.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is just propaganda.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Big money and big interests are involved in this.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Methinks the Taoiseach does protest too much.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Taoiseach is doing.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am afraid I will have to call a vote on this proposal. It is completely unacceptable. The manipulation of the speaking order is bad enough but the ramming through of the Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 on Wednesday is an absolute abuse of democracy and it cannot be allowed to stand without serious objection. The Bill has been described as "shocking" by the Environmental...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have submitted dozens of amendments. Deputy Naughten, who has a different perspective on the Bill, has indicated that he put in 12 amendments. There are some 100 amendments in total.