Garret Ahearn (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Is it recognised that the market is strangely and very unusually, an employees' market at the moment, that they can dictate what job they want, where they want it and the terms and conditions? An awful lot of business owners would say that the employee is interviewing the employer rather than the employer interviewing the employee. There is a balance here. You do not want it entirely the opposite way either. Is it being taken into account that there are unusual challenges at the moment for employers in terms of employing people?

Senator Sherlock talked about people on the minimum wage. An awful lot of them only do 19 hours a week. There are reasons for that from an employee's perspective. With regard to the goal to get to the living wage, have the witnesses studied that to see if there is going to be an impact on employees wanting to work more than 19 hours a week?