Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have enough to do providing services to unemployed people without providing services to people in pre-unemployment. We need to empower people who are in precarious or vulnerable situations with stronger legislation, as we have done with the enactment of the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, which commenced in March.

I would be open to introducing more strenuous legislation to support people's employment rights in the jobs they have, as opposed to trying to help them to get their next jobs from the jobs they are already in.