Ms Edel McGinley:

The intercountry transfer system works fairly well. Again, the heads of the Bill are not clear. It must be the minimum wage and the heads of the Bill lack detail. We are concerned that, again, there is a race to the bottom and that the minimum wage would be seen as the threshold for employment, not a higher rate of pay. It is hard for me to comment, as the Bill lacks a lot of detail in general.

A bigger thing for us is the discretionary nature of the Bill, that is, moving things from primary to secondary legislation and the lack of political oversight this entails. If this legislation goes that way, then we must protect workers because there will be very little political oversight after this Bill is enacted. Consequently we need, right now, to give workers as many rights as possible. In order to have flexibility, one needs rights so that, essentially, is the Bill.