Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed)

4:00 pm

Ms Patricia King:

We talked about low pay and that segment of the population and so on. We must not forget that the State steps in to subsidise employers that, based on their profit levels, are very well capable of paying more than they are paying. The State steps in with social transfers such as family income supplement, FIS and so on, to alleviate the at-risk-of-poverty categories in our society. That is the way it works. We do not think it is the right way. It is about the redistribution of wealth. That really is the basis of all of the argument when we analyse it.

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