Ms Rhona Murphy:

If I may add, the Deputy mentioned zero-hours and low hours contracts. I understand there has been a particular concern in recent years about the predictability of employment and to what extent people will know in advance what kind of hours they are going to work. We do have legislation in place since about this time last year, namely the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2018, which significantly curtails the circumstances in which zero-hours arrangements can be used. Many of the arrangements we would be looking at here would not be in scope. There is also an entitlement for someone to gain predictability of working hours where they can apply to their employer to be placed on a band of hours and make sure they follow that pattern for the following 12 months. These are areas that are already quite heavily regulated. For any compliant employer, and we would say the vast majority are compliant, those issues are really largely addressed now.