Marie Sherlock (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming here today. I want to ask first about goal 8.5, which relates to achieving full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value. Do the Department and the Minister really need a report from the Low Pay Commission and research from the ESRI to tell them that legal adults aged 18 and 19 should be treated like any other adult in the workplace and paid like every other adult in the workplace for their work? That is not the case in Irish law at the moment. They are discriminated against based purely on their age.