Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 9:

In page 11, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:“(g) subsistence,”.

It was felt that this section, the definition section, left out a right that workers had enjoyed previously, especially in the construction industry, where a worker who typically worked ten or 15 miles away from home might get a call from the boss to head to Kerry for three or four weeks of work, putting excessive travel and subsistence expense on the worker. In certain sectors this is called country money.

If we include subsistence in this section, we will remove the opportunity for an employer to exploit a worker in respect of the cost of attending work.