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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: Deputy McDonald is better than that. At least, I thought she was. She is asking me, as a politician, to give a commitment to a child to have an operation regardless of whether a clinician believes that operation to be the best care pathway or not. That is what the Deputy is asking me to do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I will now take Leaders' Questions under Standing Order 36. It is my pleasure to call Deputy McDonald.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. The Taoiseach's treatment of children with scoliosis and spina bifida who are waiting for surgery is disgraceful. These children wait in agony for operations that can save and change their lives and the longer they wait, the worse their condition gets. It is a race against the clock and against the child's condition becoming inoperable and the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy McDonald for raising this important issue. I will say at the outset, as the Ceann Comhairle has said to us before in this House, I am very conscious of discussing clinical details or, indeed, those of us discussing them who are not clinicians. I say that in a general sense but I say it in an important sense because Deputy McDonald asked me to provide operations when, of...
- Prelude (18 Sep 2024)
- Prelude (18 Sep 2024)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Prelude (18 Sep 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (18 Sep 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Sep 2024)
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I welcome you all back. Apologies that the bells did not ring. Members might indulge me for a moment because I am conscious we are facing into an extremely busy parliamentary schedule with a number of very important items of business over the next number of weeks. Before we begin today's session, however, it would be remiss of me as Ceann Comhairle not to make a few remarks on the issue of...
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Sep 2024)
Mattie McGrath: On your bikes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)
Maurice Quinlivan: I remind people attending remotely that they must do so from within the Leinster House complex. Apologies have been received from Deputy Shanahan and Senators Gavan and Sherlock. Today we will look at detailed scrutiny of the National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022. On 17 June 2024 the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment received notification that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)
Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Mr. Smyth. I now invite members to discuss the issue with the representatives here. We have a rota in place, as members know. We will go by that, and the first person who has indicated is Deputy O'Reilly, who has 14 minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for the information they have brought with them. In the final paragraph of his written submission, Mr. Smyth asked for time to conduct the review. What kind of time is he looking at?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Is that work under way at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Okay, that is interesting. Let us imagine that tomorrow morning the Minister picks up the phone and says he is minded to abolish sub-minimum rates of pay, that all of them should be gone and he wants to do it. Would the Department do that via this legislation or would Mr. Smyth feel it necessary to draft the Department's own legislation? If there is a difference, the witnesses might...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I appreciate that but sometimes we discuss legislation here and we are mindful of potential knock-on consequences. Are there no stumbling blocks other than it being subject to legal advice? I am not asking for a specific legal opinion. Ms Pyke's instinct is that it would be-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Exactly, and that is my view as well. I sometimes think that, with legislation, less is very often more. The more you put in, the more likely it is you could be tripped up. The opening statement states, "the incidence of sub-minimum youth rates may increase during recessionary periods". That happens because things are tight during recessionary periods and employers will, by necessity...