David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have gone through all the transcripts of all the hours of hearings and I do not believe anyone raised a concern on the issue of the bands that are in the Bill. My concern with the Government proposals is that the bands are too broad. What we do not want is a Bill that on balance would negate the value of it and would make it almost irrelevant. I have a concern that we could be presenting a possible solution which is not a solution at all. If there is no disagreement with the range of bands we have proposed, which go up in five-hour increments, why can that not be the way forward? That is a better fix to the problem rather than having bands that are too broad and do not solve the problem for most workers.