Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

There is another way of looking at this instead of putting it the way Mr. Fenn has just put it. He indicated that the legislation would preclude a business from collecting a service charge. As already suggested, where the service charge is at 12.5%, for example, in brackets after this the businesses could say "this does not go to the employee or the person who serves you".