Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 November 2022

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage

Photo of Damien EnglishDamien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to refuse this amendment because I know what the Deputy is trying to achieve here. There are parts of it that we would not fully support. However, I know exactly what the Deputy is trying to achieve and there is merit in it. At the moment, there is a summary of employment rights and the WRC details are on our permits. However, there probably is merit in what the Deputy said. We would be open to including the ICTU details. The issue we have is if we include a recognised list of trade unions, where does that end or who judges that? We could agree to look at the amendment again with the Deputy and perhaps take in the ICTU, because it is probably an umbrella for most of the unions, albeit not them all. If the Deputy is happy with that, that is something we could work on. That makes it straightforward enough. It gets very complicated if we use the other term.

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