Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 February 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019
Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
We came back to the issue of the €22,000. It is an extraordinarily low sum of money.
I certainly could not live on that amount of money per week, yet the Department seems happy to sanction work permits at that rate for one of the most profitable industries in the country. There is something distinctly unfair about that.
I will move on because I am conscious of time. The nice word used in this Bill is "agility". It is a very popular word in business sectors at the minute. Can Ms Ward tell me how this proposed Bill will increase agility for the workers concerned?
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