Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming in and for the evidence they have given us.

My first question is for Ms McElwee. In her submission she says we currently have "clear and stable criteria for minimum wage setting", and a good portion of her submission is taken up with lauding the minimum wage-setting mechanisms and so on that exist already. Yet in IBEC's open letter to the Taoiseach the very system that establishes the national minimum wage is called into question because the letter states that IBEC believes it should now be paused. How does Ms McElwee square that circle?