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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me to bring this matter up. I also thanks the Ceann Comhairle once again. I know it may sound boring at this stage. It is ten months since the origin of the problem. Since then, all representatives of County Kildare have had to bring the matter before the House. We are becoming impatient and understandably so. The situation continues, with...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Deputy Durkan for raising this. I have been in this role for a relatively short period. I will not go over the script I have been provided. I will give my thoughts, which are that I have been in this role for a short period and have come to this as an honest broker. I have had three meetings of the working group. I want people to work collaboratively. I have come in with no...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I realise, appreciate and acknowledge that the Minister of State is an honest broker. I would not like to think that I might be observed as a dishonest broker. I am an elected public representative for the area. I convey the views to the House that people have conveyed to me. That is the position that any public representative has. I specifically ask if the Minister of State will meet...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are way over time.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: It is growing, and we are able to recruit and keep people.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is true the public service has grown. After the disastrous austerity cuts, the Government had to go into reverse-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Austerity.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because of the damage it did after the economic crash. However, in key areas I have mentioned - CAMHS, CDNTs, teachers, nurses, allied health professionals - we have a serious problem. This is causing immense hardship for the service users. There are long waiting lists and double whammies for people with special needs and disability. The kids and parents get hit in education, and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I never said it was hunky-dory. The Deputy should not put words in my mouth.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, well-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: I never said that. I acknowledged, stood up and said the Deputy was raising real issues but he should not put words in my mouth or suggest for a moment that I am not taking seriously the issues he is raising. What I am simply saying is that creating the image that our public services overall cannot get and keep people is wrong. It is wrong to say that. The wages we are now offering in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Every single one of what?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: The wage agreements we have brought in. The Deputy has always said they are not enough.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not enough.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: He has always said they are not enough. We are now paying our public servants, across many parts of our public services, wages that are easily comparable with what is available in other parts of Europe, and in many cases ahead. I want to make that case regarding the scale of and funding for our public services.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)
Public Sector Pay
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)
Pauline Tully: 47. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has had any discussions with the relevant Ministers or senior management at the Department of Health or the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in regard to addressing the existing pay parity that exists between workers in section 39 organisations and workers in HSE and section 38 organisations; if...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the difference in pay and conditions between workers in section 38 and section 39 employments and those workers directly employed as public servants is making it more difficult to recruit and retain workers in key areas of public services where section 38 and section 39 agencies are the key providers of those...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)
Pauline Tully: 68. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if either the Minister for Health or the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has requested additional funding to address the existing pay parity that exists between workers in section 39 organisations and workers in HSE and section 38 organisations since he started in his present role; and if he will make...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)
Pauline Tully: Has the Minister had any discussions with the Minister, Ministers of State or senior management at the Department of Health or the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with regard to addressing the existing pay disparity that exists between workers in section 39 organisations and workers employed directly by the HSE or section 38 organisations? If so, what...