John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, and her officials to this meeting for consideration of the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017. The Bill was referred to the select committee by Dáil Éireann on 15 February 2018.

Any Member acting in substitution for a committee member should formally notify the clerk now if he or she has not done so. Divisions on the Bill will be taken as they arise. Members attending the meeting in accordance with Standing Order 95(3) should be aware that, pursuant to Standing Orders, he or she may move his of her amendments but may not participate in the votes on them. I turn now to the amendments and we will work through them as efficiently as possible. We will start with amendment No. 1 in the name of Deputy O'Dea.