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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: More transparency about how much money is generated out of the films is welcome-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: It is regulated more.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but the problem, as I have been trying to explain to the Government, as have the representatives of the writers, directors and performers, is the people with the whip hand are the producers. If you want a job, you sign the contract or otherwise, you do not get a job. That is the way it actually works. The contracts being offered to writers, directors, actors and performers are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: To clarify, Regulation 27 is about transparency. Once you have your transparency, Regulation 28 kicks in and that offers authors and performers a contractual adjustment mechanism when the remuneration originally agreed turns out to be disproportionately low compared to the success of their work. That is important to clarify. To be clear, the existing copyright legislation ensures that...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was the one who asked our committee to do that report. I know quite a lot about it, with respect.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: Well done.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am pretty familiar with this issue because I have been bringing it up for about four years. The problem is, nothing ever really changes. I am interested to see this legislation and whether it will make any difference. Could the Minister of State please tell us when that legislation is actually coming up? To repeat, there is an easier way to do this and it is for the Government to crack...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: The Deputy alluded in his opening remarks to the fact that he has a Private Members' Bill on this issue. I draw the Deputy's attention to the line in the Low Pay Commission recommendation that states that sub-minimum rates should not be abolished before 1 January 2025. The reason for that is that the Low Pay Commission asked the Government to consider the report and its recommendations to...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: There is international evidence that this has happened in other countries when decisions like this were taken-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are over time.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: -----and that is part of the rationale for further investigation on this.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Workers who are not on the sub-minimum rates - older workers - lose out because employers depend on people who they are paying the lower rates. It is actually the older workers who lose out in some of those industries in terms of what they are paid because of disproportionate dependence on people who are on sub-minimum rates. I take the point that in many cases there is a very low...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: It is not.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For somebody who is 18 or 19 to be doing the same job somebody who is 20, 21 or 22, working beside each other, is wrong. It is discrimination and it is exploitation.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: It is-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Before the Minister of State comes back in, I call Deputy O'Reilly.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: The Minister of State said this is complicated, but it is not. It is very simple. It is equal pay for work of equal value. Yesterday, representatives from Mandate Trade Union appeared before the committee and I asked whether its members who are paid 70%, 80% or 90% of the rate are, in fact, doing 70%, 80% or 90% of the work. The fact is that they are not; they are doing 100% of the work....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: To be clear, my intention is to look at the Low Pay Commission recommendations and do exactly what it said in terms of analysing them and looking at consequences, including unintended consequences. As I said, I do not want a situation whereby we have an unintended consequence of a change to people's working hours. Deputy Boyd Barrett has alleged that some industries are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State.