Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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We now move on to our consideration of the Employment Permits Bill 2022, which was referred to the select committee by the Dáil on 12 October 2022. The purpose of the Bill is to consolidate and update the legislative provisions that regulate the employment permit system, namely the Employment Permits Acts of 2003 and 2006, as amended in 2014. The conclusions of the Review of Economic Migration Policy 2018 endorsed the robust fundamental structure of the existing system. To increase the responsiveness of the system, to modernise it and to ensure that it is capable of adapting to the changing needs of the labour market of the future, the review recommended that new legislation be initiated. I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. I propose that we try to complete our consideration of Committee Stage. Is that agreed? Agreed.

I invite the Minister of State to make his opening remarks.