David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I have that. In the third key area, Professor Clinch talks about skills and a skilled labour market, which I support.

When we talk about skills and a skilled labour market, which I support, one of the difficulties is that we have had numerous reports at European Union level and at national level on low pay and precarious employment. With one in five workers in low paid jobs, does the council see that as a problem? It is often argued that we need to be a low wage economy, that we have to have these levels of low pay and precarious work to be competitive. How sustainable is that in terms of the people who are in those low-paid jobs? Does the council see precarious work as a problem and does it see the very high levels of low pay that we seem to have in comparison with other European countries as a challenge?