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Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: If the employer stands up for the employee-----

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I have referred to Deputy Lawlor in the third person, which means I am speaking to the Chair.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The point I am making is that the employer has to smash the relationship he has had with the employee and collect the money. If he does not, the party opposite will fine him. Not satisfied with burdening employers with the role of debt collector, the Government is stipulating employers will have to go to the courts as part of normal employment behaviour. For an employer to determine...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Where an employee against whom an attachment order has been made changes employment, the new employer must notify the court. Setting aside for a moment the excessive administrative burden the Government is imposing on employers, imagine the impact of this measure on an employee-employer relationship. In a difficult economic environment, many such relationships are already fraught and...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: That is rubbish.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: You used the word “probably”. You do not even have facts.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: One truthful speaker, too.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Deputy should say something that is accurate, too.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Your back is against the wall now, Lord Lucan.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Labour Party and Fine Gael really have excelled themselves with this legislation. This Government is rapidly becoming the most divisive Administration in the history of the State.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This obnoxious legislation is, in effect, a form of collective punishment on all citizens for daring to voice their opposition through civil disobedience to the water charges. We have experienced at first hand the disintegration of the social democratic values hard won by the peoples of Europe. We are watching it again, this time in slow motion, in Greece because of the debt hard-liners in...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This is becoming a boot-boy Government which is using the law to enforce draconian authoritarian measures which are so deeply divisive and unfair that it is breath-taking.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has failed to win the political, social, fiscal and even moral argument on water charges. If it has done anything well, it is this. Irish Water has become the most productive and efficient fiasco factory any Government has managed to create in a long time. I cannot recall any other initiative which a Government has created that has produced so many problems and revisions, as...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Some may describe this as the Government literally putting its hands in peoples' pockets. It is an attack on those who have difficulty in surviving in this society. Interestingly, the last two Members spoke about small businesses and employers. This legislation is an attack on them. Employers, like landlords, are to become the State’s debt collectors. The legislation empowers...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Wait. I am trying to educate the Deputy.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Two ears and one mouth. Listen twice and speak once.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government is asking employers to become debt collectors against their employees. The good relationship employers have nurtured with their employees to create a productive and decent working environment will come to an end because of this. We have over 345,000 people signing on, with 80,000 more participating in job activation schemes. Outside the public sector, 70% of those working...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Some of this debt will go unpaid in certain cases because workers cannot afford to pay it. Under the Government, low pay has become a byword. Ireland is the second worst in the OECD when it comes to low pay. Under-employment is also entrenched in this society as a result of the divisive anti-social democratic values that Fine Gael and the Labour Party have pursued in government and...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, has opposed every hard-won welfare state choice created.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is iad tuismitheoirí aonair ceann de na grúpaí is leochaileacha sa tír seo. Tá rátaí díothachta níos airde ina measc ná i measc grúpaí eile. I 2008 bhí 14% de theaghlaigh aonair sa Stát ag fulaingt díothachta. I 2013 bhí 31 % de theaghlach le tuismitheoir aonair ag fulaingt. Faoi chúram an Rialtais seo...