Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion

Dr. Peter Rigney:

It is not so much the market trends. Somebody said "give me a one-handed economist" because an economist will say on the one hand and on the other hand. There should be an institution of the State that would say, for example, in the case of the widget-making sector, taking account of all the circumstances involved, its peak season is from February to April and it considers the sector should get the numbers sought to make widgets from February to April.