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Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...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 Government to acknowledge the depth of feeling and...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...have been degraded as a result of the changes made which I do not think many of them will forget. It was noticeable at the demonstration outside last week of the young teachers from the ASTI, the TUI and the INTO just how angry and politicised they were by this injustice. What is terrible is that now we are in a so-called recovery, but there is no acknowledgment or apology from the...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Maurice McCabe once upon a time in the Houses, but FEMPI is disgusting. For the Government to perpetuate this and punish people who stand up against it is unjustified. I commend the bravery of the ASTI, the TUI, the INTO, the nurses' unions and so on who have spoken out against this. I hope that the revolt against this pay apartheid and emergency legislation will escalate until we...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This week, I went out and joined lesser-paid rank-and-file teachers from the INTO, the ASTI and the TUI who were protesting against the fact that there is a categorically of lesser-paid teachers - people who are employed as teachers post-2011 or 2012. They want to know whether as part of these pay talks, the Minister will commit to the principle of equality. By equality, they mean there is...

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... The Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland, ASTI, and the gardaí have democratically made a decision and, I suspect, if it was put to the rank and file of the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, INTO, and to the nurses, we might have a different response. The young teachers at that rally were not political or radical people. There were...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the education. They are deeply concerned and I am utterly convinced by their concerns that this is being rushed for political reasons without proper consultation with them. Next week the TUI is out on strike again because the institutes have been savaged. Although I do not have the figures in front of me, if I am correct they have lost 34% of their funding. There has been a very...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to me how stressed, overworked, desperate and despairing they were regarding the situation in which they were working. It is not just reading off the documents we got from the Teachers Union of Ireland, TUI, it is also about the teachers on the picket line. They do not want to be on strike. There would be industrial action in Dublin but for the agreement at the LRC in July. We have had...

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...am proposing are fair and reasonable and would provide some safeguard for teachers by introducing that threshold of seriousness. I reiterate that all the teacher unions, the ASTI, the INTO and the TUI, have made similar points. The wording they propose for discussion in the Seanad will probably be slightly different from mine but the intention will be the same. I am obliged to mark the...

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...or being about serious misconduct. This series of amendments attempts to rectify this weakness in the legislation. I did not get a chance to attend the relevant meeting but I understand the ASTI, the INTO and the TUI were in the House yesterday making similar points, although they have proposed somewhat differently worded amendments, which will come up in the Seanad. They address...

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...elected through national parents' organisations rather than directly at school level. I would like to hear the justification for that because it seems to threaten a level of local democracy. The TUI has expressed concerned that section 48 should specifically prevent fees from being charged for the provision of education by the education training boards, with which I agree. I wish to...

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a number of the protections that existed in the previous legislation dealing with VECs in the areas of suspension, dismissal, removal from office, and payment for employees, teachers and other staff. The TUI has made it very clear that it is concerned about this and that the protection for workers' rights in the sector needs to be retained. That is a matter that needs to be reviewed as...