Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

I will return to sick pay with Mr. McDonnell. We were talking about who is going to pay for this. He spoke about low rates of employees' PRSI. We could make the choice to improve workers' conditions but then someone has to pay. How about we make the choice that employers' PRSI should rise, considering that we have the lowest employers' PRSI in all of Europe? Part of developing a proper social insurance model would be to significantly increase the amount of employers' PRSI. That way we could afford to pay decent sick pay and other benefits. How would ISME respond to that?