Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)

Amendment No. 6 related to increasing the amount involved from €600 to €1,000. The reason for suggesting that it be changed to a higher amount was to bring it in line with current approximate average wages.

In the context of amendment No. 5, I just felt that the period when employees are left waiting for payments should not be prolonged. Eight weeks is too long to wait. That is why I suggested that it be brought down to four weeks. As in the recent case, where people expect a wage on a Thursday and they are dependent on those wages, that eight weeks was too long for them to wait for a payment.