John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It was interesting that the Minister opened up that contribution by talking about the era of new politics. We have become so used to that term over the past 18 months or so but the proof is in the pudding. The Opposition brought forward legislation to deal with a serious problem of banded hour contracts. It came to the jobs committee, a cross-party committee, which did exhaustive work on it. It scrutinised it, brought in expert witnesses from across the board, made 21 recommendations and endorsed the legislation. The Minister has not referred to any of the heads of Bill where there are either serious concerns-----