Dr. Donal de Buitléir:

The Deputy is right. Our job is to give advice and the Government has to decide whether to accept or reject it. My understanding, although much has happened in the past couple of days, is that the Government has accepted the recommendation a majority of the commission made to increase the minimum wage by 30 cent to €10.10. We did not recommend a particular date on which that might be operative. My understanding, subject to correction, is that the Government is waiting to see how the current uncertainty-----