Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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We will have that discussion. I just wanted to get a brief understanding of where the representative groups stand on the issue. Mr. Murphy's member organisations are experiencing a whole ecosystem of costs, and wages are one aspect. I always feel wages are the last place we should seek cost reductions. Where do wages stand in his priority of costs? Would parity of USC for self-employed people be a quid pro quofor an increase in the minimum wage?