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- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. I want to ask when the social welfare and pensions Bill, the general scheme of which has been published, will come forward and will the Government deal with this assault on the pension entitlements of workers, such as the Irish Life workers, in defined benefit pension schemes who paid in good faith and expect a decent pension?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Taoisigh and Ministers continue to walk away from the Dáil with massive, gold-plated, guaranteed pensions - it has happened under this and previous Fianna Fáil-led Governments - yet the relentless attack on the pension entitlements of workers continues. The latest attack is in Irish Life, a company that the Government sold and that has remitted €370 million to the parent...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to renew the FEMPI legislation at the end of June 2017 in view of the fact that the economy is no longer in a state of emergency; if so, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26270/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to recent revelations as to the way in which public money may have been misspent and the way in which there may have been a lack of governance in this spending in some third level institutions, the new measures he is planning to put in place to ensure proper oversight of expenditure across all public bodies and institutions;...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Government's timeframe to end the pay inequality that teachers endure, in view of the fact that it has now been six years of discrimination (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26319/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Bodies Mergers (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason he and the Citizens Information Board are proceeding with the restructuring programme of MABS and the CIS despite the results of the Dáil Éireann motion and before the publication of the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26326/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legal Costs (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the oversights in place in terms of the expenditure of publicly funded bodies on legal defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26272/17]
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are celebrating.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Thank you, Ceann Comhairle. Actually, I am going to wait. It is pretty noisy.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we stall the clock for a minute?
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not hear all of the contributions in the earlier part of the debate. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are certainly supporting this, but I am not sure what other people are saying yet. The Competition (Amendment) Bill aids workers' interests and gives workers who need it the right to organise as trade unionists to improve their pay and conditions. It is great that we can come together...
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not personalise it though.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about accounting.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is closely linked to tax.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been there quite a few times.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been there quite a few times.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do know that.