Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Low Pay Commission Recommendations on the National Minimum Wage: Discussion

Dr. Frank Walsh:

To reiterate, initially, we passed this off to LEEF. Our view was that this was the most effective way because we do not have any direct input into the budget, not that LEEF does either. We thought that was the most effective way to progress it. At our last meeting, we said we would try to formulate more specific ideas about how we could target the supports. It is difficult. There are issues about targeting it but also you do not want to design a support where there is a lot of dead weight. We will certainly try to do that.