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Ah here.
Our Northern brethren are being tapped for money too.
Good luck with that, muckers.
Sinn Féin Deputy Peadar Tóibín threatened to hold up the Workplace Relations Bill 2014 in respect of the dispute at Kishogue, Lucan. The Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Committee are meeting this afternoon to make amendments to the existing legislation.
Bricklayers in Kishogue were reportedly being paid less than €5 per hour.
There are numerous amendments proposed in the Bill and if the deputy so wishes he can call a vote on each amendment which will take up to eight minutes per vote.
Hero or zero?
YOU decide.
Previously: Crane Of Defiance
Senator Michael D’Arcy (Fine Gael) spoke in the chamber this morning about unprecedented criminal activity in the Travelling community.
Now that we’re into the long dark winter nights, people are finding it that they’re not safe in their homes and it’s a real concern. But specifically it has been brought to my attention about the level of criminality in the Travelling community is now out of control. And I think it’s important to qualify that statement Chair because I don’t want anybody to say that I’m against Travellers or anything of that nature. I certainly am not. But where one sector of society seems to be ignoring the boundaries that we all live by, that’s not acceptable. The travelling community are not taking responsibilty for their own members. I’ve been informed by senior members of the Gardai that very serious crime within the travelling community at a level that was never seen before is now occurring. I’m calling for the Minister for Justice to come in to have a debate upon serious criminality and that we can scope further the actions of the Gardai to see are they able to impact upon the level of crime within the travelling community. It just can’t be left unchecked because it is burgeoning and spiralling upwards in a way that is not acceptable.
Genuine concerns or has the Senator been watching Love/Hate?
Senator David Norris brought up the subject of prostitution, Ruhama and the Turn Off The Red Light campaign in the chamber this morning.
He said:
I also want to take up this business of Ruhama, and Stop the Red Light (sic). It’s time this type of nonsense was really, honestly addressed….Despite the puppeteering going on by this middle class collection of ex-nuns and radical feminists…98% of the women for whom the voices are being articulated by the self-appointed group are opposed completely to it….the police are against it, by and large. Everybody realises that it’s going to be inoperable, ineffective and going to lead to serious risks to the lives and welfare of women and men involved in the sex business. So yes, prostitution is messy, it’s regrettable but it’s a fact of life.
Then Senator Aideen Hayden (Labour) interjects and it all kicks off.
We seem to have an issue with prostitution and no one’s buying it.
Earlier: Putting It Out To Tinder
Neil McDonnell of FTA Ireland addressed the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications this morning to relay his concerns on Eircode, the new address system that is to be implemented in Ireland.
“Eircode is a bad postcode…Two adjacent poperties will have different randomly assigned eircodes…Eircode will impose a significant cost on SMEs in Ireland with no tangible benefit…As a national postcode however, Eircode lacks vision, imagination, ambition and most of all, practicality.”
Meanwhile…
Get on the Eircode story, jounalists. I’m told, by people who know about such things, that it’s the next Irish Water.
— lɐƃɹǝℲ (@Fergal) November 5, 2014
RUN!
Previously: Decrypting The Irish Postcode Saga
Gregory Campbell DUP MLA and MP for East Derry and Caitríona Ruane Sinn Féin MLA for South Down appeared on yesterday evening’s UTV Live with Paul Clark to discuss Mr Campbell’s use of “Curry my yogurt, can of coca coalyer” in the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday.
Tikka or what?
Previously: Not Currying Favour
Um.
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Earlier, at a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, Labour TD for Dublin South-Central Eric Byrne asked the Nigerian ambassador to Ireland, Her Excellency Mrs Bolere Elizabeth Ketebu about emigration, youth unemployment, inequality and the role successive governments have played in corruption.
*collapses in coughing fit*