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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: Just as Deputy Gogarty can express support for this and vote the other way, it is the mirror image of what his colleagues in Cabinet are doing. They are calling for a general election while hanging on with their fingernails to being members of Cabinet and participating in discussions while also seeking to dissolve themselves from collective responsibility for any decision made by Cabinet.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is an interesting political high-wire routine. It is the type of politics that totally undermines the credibility of Members of this House. It is the type of politics that we look at from this side with despair because all too frequently the public thinks that we are as bad as the lot opposite us-----

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: -----when there is no valid comparison that can be made.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: I want to deal with one issue only and I will try to deal with it with some brevity. This legislation, based on the State being confronted by a financial emergency, seeks to bring about public sector wage decreases that affect the public sector across the board in a broad range of areas. In the context of dealing with the pension issue, there are also deductions for former public sector...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: There is a comparison here which I am going to make, and I will be brief on this.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Bill made provision that if there was a general deduction in public sector wages because of the State suffering a financial emergency, those deductions should apply to members of the Judiciary. There was a simple amendment that I sought to be included in the Constitution, and it reads as follows: The remuneration of a judge shall not be reduced during his continuance in office save where...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy supports it but will not vote for it. There is a fine position of political principle.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy talks about credibility.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy supports it but will not vote for it.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy is just proving he is so contaminated by Fianna Fáil that he does not even know what he is saying.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy has adopted the usual Fianna Fáil position on issues from the back bench.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: Was this in the programme?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: How about morally bankrupt?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: How long will that take?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: He will not vote for it.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is totally insane.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Greens shoot themselves again.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: I have two questions. On the issue that has just been raised - promised legislation is an important matter - it was announced earlier this week by the Taoiseach that the Dáil will return a week early, as Fine Gael had been seeking, presumably on 12 January. Does the Tánaiste know why it is returning a week early? It was assumed it was returning a week early to take the finance Bill. If...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: My second question relates to a very serious matter. On the night on which the budget was being debated in this House, the Department of Justice and Law Reform published a very extensive and comprehensive report by Judge Michael Reilly, the Inspector of Prisons, into catastrophic failures in every aspect of the justice system for which the Minister is responsible that resulted in the death...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Alan Shatter: That report is a matter of substantial public concern. Will Dáil time be made available to debate it? I suggest to the Tánaiste that the Dáil sit from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow with the agreement of the Whips to facilitate the Minister making a statement to the House on the report and Members of the House in addressing the issues in that report. The essential issue that arose from the...