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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: Before we commence, I would like to apologise for the lack of nameplates today. For some reason, only Senator Davitt's is working. None of the rest of us seems to have a nameplate. When members are speaking, I ask them to identify themselves. I remind members, visitors and those in the Gallery to ensure that their mobile phones are either switched off or placed in flight mode for the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank Ms McGinley and Ms Ryan. I now ask Mr. Fleming to begin his presentation to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: Mr. Fleming is 15 minutes into his contribution and we have to allow members to ask questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: For clarity, it transcends five different Departments. Those are the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, which this committee shadows. The Marine Survey Office comes under the remit of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. The issue also comes under the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and under the Department of Justice and Equality regarding Irish...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: It was just-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: I wish to state that the Minister was not invited to attend today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: I agree with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: Senator Nash wishes to intervene briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: I will interject and ask Mr. Fleming a question if he does not mind. Is he saying this is a racist issue? In his opinion, are only coloured people affected by this? Can Mr. Fleming give us an example scenario? Are there 20 or 30 crew members on a trawler or ten? Are two or three people being picked out while the rest are being treated well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: I am sorry to interrupt. Is Mr. Fleming saying everybody on the trawler is being treated badly by the owner or is it just the case that some of the migrant workers are not getting the same terms and conditions as other fishermen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: Is it a racist issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: I will ask Mr. Fleming another question if I may. I want to try to tease this point out a little bit more. On average, would there be ten, 12 or 15 people on a trawler?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: Is it the case that one or two people are being ill-treated in the way Mr. Fleming has described - such as that they are literally sleeping where they are working - while the other five or six turn a blind eye and oversee this as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank Mr. Fleming and our other guests for their powerful presentations. Members will have a private discussion when the witnesses leave to decide what steps the committee will take. We will, however, adopt a united approach. We will also have the other stakeholders appear before us. This is not the end of the matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank the witnesses for their engagement with the joint committee. We will have a short discussion in private session and will keep the witnesses informed as to what action we intend to take.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: A man has died, Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2017)
Mary Butler: It is a regional issue.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)
Mary Butler: Hear, hear.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)
Mary Butler: While Fianna Fáil fully believes in the need to reform the judicial appointment process, the Government's Bill is deeply flawed. Fianna Fáil has proposed legislation on establishing a judicial appointments commission that would be independent of Government and make recommendations to same based on an assessment of the merits of applicants for judicial office. We must ensure that...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)
Mary Butler: -----"No". When I asked what I had been contacted about, they told me: housing, homelessness, waiting lists, home help hours and the main story of the past two weeks in Waterford and a matter on which I have been campaigning for the past two years, the lack of 24-7 cardiology cover. I have discussed this issue several times in the Chamber. From 5 o'clock this evening, the cath lab in the...