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- Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The first thing that young teachers, nurses and other public servants should take from the Minister's response is that they should continue to campaign on this issue because their campaign is working. It is clearly the pressure of the ASTI, the TUI and the INTO, in coming together to oppose the latest deal which does not fully restore pay or deal with pay equality, that has forced the...
- Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I said I could not move the amendment.
- Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say that.
- Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was making a contribution at the time. Obviously, I did not say I could not make a contribution.
- Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a matter of record that we cannot move the amendments to provide for pay equality. That is what we said.
- Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have already spoken about the issue of pay inequality on the amendment that was ruled out of order. I am aware that quite a few teachers and other public servants are watching this debate and it is worth explaining to them because they probably do not know that our amendments and those of others - Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, Solidarity-People Before Profit, Deputies Clare Daly, Mick...
- Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Very moderate it was too.
- Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As we proposed in the amendments ruled out of order, this section should include a provision to end the pay inequality imposed on new entrants to the Civil Service after 2011 or 2012. We will move on presently to a more detailed discussion of the pension levy and the punishment provisions of the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation. However, the pay...
- Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also wish to support Deputy Healy's amendment. The FEMPI legislation should be completely repealed. It has no justification whatsoever and it never did, by the way. It was based, in the first instance, on an enormous lie that was used to justify the austerity assault on working people after the collapse in 2008. The lie was that the reason we had a crash was that we had excessive public...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach complained about constraints in terms of capacity to deliver housing but the ICTU report confirms something that most of us know anecdotally. Significant numbers of people who formally worked in construction will not work in construction because of rampant bogus self-employment and the poor conditions and pay of employment for construction workers. If the Taoiseach wants to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The requirement is poorly defined.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A - economy - will next meet. [51719/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's work with the National Economic and Social Council. [51718/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: NESC has done considerable work on housing in recent years. I can suggest one area where we need to do considerable work. The Government needs to do something on the issue of affordability and NESC could possibly be a vehicle. We still do not have any real plan for affordable housing. We have a market where prices are spiralling out of all control and where much of the funding the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I again refer to the question I asked earlier about housing. It is not acceptable that, on the one hand, we are planning to have a social mix to privatise 800 publicly owned sites, with up to 60% in many of the plans being given over for some form of private housing, whereas the miserable 10% on private sites, supposedly under the guise of a social mix, now turns out to be not even 10%. The...
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the umpteenth time, the Taoiseach has again today referred to his commitment to social mix in terms of housing. This has been the justification for the, in effect, privatisation plans for approximately 800 publicly owned sites. Up to 60% of those sites will be, in effect, privatised. On the Part V private development requirement to give over 10% for public housing and social mix, is...
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why?
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No it was not proposed.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are trying to end their neutrality as well.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a motion on PESCO. There it is.