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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (11 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the due diligence that was requested by his Department into the finance of the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39253/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (11 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider including a specific category for Dún Laoghaire in the Harbours Bill, given Dún Laoghaire's historic and cultural importance, and given that it is not purely a commercial port; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39252/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (11 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will assure the persons of the greater Dún Laoghaire, Sallynoggin and Loughlinstown areas of County Dublin that any changes to the local bus services will not result in a reduced service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39546/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours and Piers Development (11 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the correspondence between his Department and the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company regarding the plans for the proposed cruise berth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39254/15]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To amplify the same argument, there is no emergency anymore. In fact, the only emergency is in the areas of housing and health. One could argue there is also an emergency in terms of poverty and deprivation, given that these conditions have increased exponentially. Any of the crises that has developed is linked, at least, to income cuts, of which the FEMPI legislation was a significant...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should look at the facts. A useful document was handed to me.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fair enough. However, given that most of the amendments have been ruled out of order because they would impose a charge on the Exchequer and that we will be unable to speak to them, we might as well set out our stall.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is true. IMPACT Dún Laoghaire branch produced a leaflet with a table showing how much public sector workers at different pay levels had lost during the emergency years annually and overall. A worker on €30,000 lost €16,000; a worker on €40,000 lost €27,000; and a worker on €50,000 lost €38,000. Under the Lansdowne Road proposals provided...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will correct the Minister's interpretation of what I said. I was not applauding the Government for getting us to where we are now. I made exactly the opposite point, which was-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. I am saying it has nothing to do with the wage gouging and income gouging that the Government engaged in.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. It relates to the ups and downs of the global economy, and-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The measures the Government took under the guise of financial emergency measures made the situation worse, prolonged the crisis and worsened the impact of the crisis on the economy and our citizens. My take is that it made things worse. The reason Greece is worse is not because the Greeks did not do that but because they did. They had even more extreme emergency income and wage gouging and...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I gave the figures. To cut a very long story short, at the end of the period envisaged in this legislation covered by the Lansdowne Road agreement between now and 2018, someone who was earning €30,000 in 2009 will still be earning less than they earned in 2009. It is the same for those on €40,000 or €50,000. At the end of this so-called restoration of pay they will be...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not drifting.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am responding to the Minister's-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It turns on the question of whether it is an emergency. The Minister has not responded to this. Is it an emergency? Are we in the emergency, out of the emergency or on the way out of the emergency? If the Minister is claiming we are out of the emergency, why do we have an emergency Bill? Why is the Minister retaining a range of the elements he put in place for cutting wages with most of...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say that.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Wealth and capital tax increases.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will send the Minister a copy of our budget submission.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister knows then what I am proposing.