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- Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)
Pat Casey: Amendments Nos. 35 to 37, inclusive, and amendment No. 40 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)
Pat Casey: Amendments Nos. 38 and 39 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)
Pat Casey: Amendments Nos. 41 and 46 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)
Pat Casey: Amendments Nos. 42 and 43 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)
Pat Casey: Amendment No. 44 has been ruled out of order. It does not arise out of committee proceedings.
- Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)
Pat Casey: When is it proposed to take Fifth Stage?
- Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)
Pat Casey: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)
Pat Casey: When is it proposed to sit again?
- Seanad: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Feb 2023)
Pat Casey: I welcome the Minister of State to the House.
- Seanad: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Feb 2023)
Pat Casey: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Seanad: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Feb 2023)
Pat Casey: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)
Pat Casey: I call on the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, to speak and welcome her to the Chamber.
- Seanad: Report on Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Ireland's Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Pat Casey: I welcome the Minister to the House. I thank Deputy Niamh Smyth and Senator Carrigy for the report. I acknowledge the work on the 9% VAT rate, which was critically important and much appreciated. Like Senator Conway, I would love a debate on the wider issue of VAT on the hospitality sector and where it should lie. Drink needs to be brought into it. We must look realistically at where the...
- Seanad: Report on Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Ireland's Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Pat Casey: Senator Gavan is right. I am just saying the hospitality sector has challenges that no other sector has. We talk about unsocial hours, weekends and night work. That is the industry. We must work those hours. If we do not work those hours, there is no industry. We talk about seasonal work and irregular hours. That is the industry. That might not be the case in cities where there is a...
- Seanad: Report on Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Ireland's Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Pat Casey: Let us see. The problem with reports is they change every year. Let us look at a report from 2021 from the Workplace Relations Commission. There were 38 cases relating to the hospitality sector and nine breaches, 24%, were recorded. The breaches in the administrative and support sector amounted to 38%; in agriculture it was 54%; in construction it was 41%; in electrical contracting it was...
- Seanad: Report on Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Ireland's Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Pat Casey: I accept we have challenges, but we treat our staff fairly and well.
- Seanad: Report on Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Ireland's Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Pat Casey: Yes. If we did not, we would not be in business. It is as simple as that. Like every other industry at this time, we are struggling to get staff.
- Seanad: Report on Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Ireland's Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Pat Casey: If Senator Gavan wants to start talking about input costs, then let us go there. We can up our wages if he wants, but there would be a knock-on effect on the cost to the consumer. It is fine coming in here and thinking this is easily resolved, but it is not. If Senator Gavan looks at the financial viability of many hotels in Ireland, he will see it is not there. We must bring some realism...
- Seanad: Report on Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Ireland's Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Pat Casey: It is disgraceful.
- Seanad: Report on Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Ireland's Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Motion (22 Feb 2023)
Pat Casey: As I said, I had not intended coming in to speak but Senator Gavan got my blood boiling while listening in my office. I love my industry. It has a significant role to play in the economy and in every community in rural Ireland. It is a lifeline to those communities. We are seeing that being affected by hotels being taken over with refugees and the damage it is doing to the whole economy of...