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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence (10 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Bogfaimid ar aghaidh go Saincheist Thráthúil Uimh. 4, in ainm an Teachta Stanley.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence (10 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I raise this important issue with the Minister, Deputy McEntee, this morning regarding the nine counties that do not have domestic violence refuges. This is a very serious matter. We know there is a huge problem out there. A commitment was given some years back that the nine counties would have services. The Minister has stated publicly that she is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I welcome everybody to the meeting. This is a very interesting conversation. I ask Mr. Redmond about the following from Mr. McDonnell's written submission: We must also recognise that it has become government policy in recent years to pass more of the burden of the “social wage” to employers via the higher minimum wage, domestic violence leave, statutory sick pay, etc. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I have met a number of relatively small business owners and they all feel the same pressure coming on them from these measures. They are good measures. I am not saying they should not be introduced and have yet to meet an employer who says that, but they are bringing on extra costs. This is in the context of another change coming down the tracks with this particular one. We have three...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: What number is that roughly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Is it 45% of the 15,000 mentioned earlier?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: A number of reasons have been mentioned by ISME, the first being the extra cost. It has been said that if somebody does a job and an older person does the same job, then the productivity is equal and they should be paid the same. That argument has been made and I do not see why it should not be the case. They have the same productivity and make the same profit for the company. The next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Of course, it could also be argued that another staff member's time being used to train a new person is time that worker is not producing work for the company, so there is a double-whammy there. Did Mr. McDonnell want to come in on those issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Mr. McDonnell mentioned students and seasonal work. Does ISME have any quantification of how many of the 15,000 we spoke about earlier are students who come in during the summer time and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Is that in line with the ESRI's figures of 80% comprising students?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Will Dr. Redmond comment on the seasonality of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Of the 15,000, therefore, roughly 12,000 are students.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Of the 80% who also work in accommodation or retail, is that about the same number?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: The figure, therefore, is about 7,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: On the issue of productivity, Mr. McDonnell might take this question. If two people, regardless of their age, are performing the same job with the same productivity and output, should they be paid the same wage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: The point remains, however, that if two people in the same job with the same productivity do not require different levels of supervision and so on, they should be paid the same rate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: About half of them are women. Is that correct?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (10 Jul 2024)

Mattie McGrath: With all due respect, the Minister of State's response grossly understates the underperformance of Tusla in meeting its statutory obligation to protect the country's most vulnerable children in State care. Tusla's dysfunction is hiding in plain sight, as was pointed out to those present on 13 June in the Dáil public petitions committee meeting by the Alliance of Birth Mothers...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (10 Jul 2024)

Colm Burke: If I may just respond to the Deputy, in relation to 33 children missing, the whereabouts are unknown in relation to the 33. However, ten of them have actually been in contact. Ten out of the 33 have been in contact but their whereabouts are still not known, just to put it into perspective. There is close co-operation between the Garda and Tusla. Operation Cosnaím was set up and,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (10 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy is not here for the second matter. I am moving on to the third, in ainm an Teachta David Stanton.