Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Yes. That is what is being done, as this is emergency legislation when the emergency is over, even according to the Government. What is the legislation designed to do? It is to bully and intimidate public sector workers, create a two-tier pay structure and accelerate the race to the bottom. The FEMPI legislation is a textbook example of what Naomi Klein called the shock doctrine. This was exploiting a crisis, seeing it as an opportunity to take advantage and do something that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil always wanted to do but could never get away with except within an atmosphere of crisis.

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