Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To direct the question in a different way to our colleagues from ISME, is it not grossly unfair on its members who pay the full minimum wage to have them competing against people paying sub-minimum rates of pay? As Mr. McDonnell has acknowledged, the majority of ISME's members do not pay sub-minimum rates of pay. That is what the evidence from the ESRI tells us. Is it not grossly unfair that they have to compete with employers who choose to pay these awful sub-minimum rates of pay?