Results 521-540 of 1,037,496 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Michael McNamara OR speaker:Emer Higgins OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Claire Kerrane)
- 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.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: That is industry doing the right thing by these people. What we have is a situation where under-18s cannot necessarily work the same hours legally as those aged over 18 and cannot always do the same duty.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State. We are way over time.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)
Emer Higgins: We need to take that into account as well. That is why we are doing the economic impact assessment and looking at this further.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Renewable Energy Generation
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: 7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the work his Department is undertaking to engage with other agencies to leverage support programmes and funding opportunities to maximise local supply chain content levels in the domestic Irish market, as contained within Powering Prosperity: Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industrial Strategy; to provide a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: Will the Minister of State provide an update on the work his Department is undertaking to engage with other agencies to leverage support programmes and funding opportunities to maximise local supply chain content levels in the domestic Irish market, as contained within Powering Prosperity: Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industrial Strategy? Will he provide a breakdown of the agencies he and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Dara Calleary: This is a good continuation of our discussion with Deputy Quinlivan. As I said, implementation of Powering Prosperity: Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industrial Strategy is progressing well. Our Department is overseeing the implementation of the actions, working alongside the action owners across Government Departments and agencies, including Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland. We also...