Ms Claire Pyke:

It is important to say that the Low Pay Commission continuously reviews everything to do with minimum wage issues. It has a statutory obligation to make annual reports. It constantly looks at this. It is good practice to review whether a new regime is working, for example. The specific impetus for this change was the request from Deputy Varadkar to look at it. which followed the publication of this Private Member's Bill.

The commission has recommended in this report that if the measures are changed again, we will review them again. It is best practice to keep-----