Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent)
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I thank the witnesses for their submissions. Will the ESRI elaborate on what it said earlier about 80% of those on low pay or the minimum wage receiving more? Employers are choosing to pay people more. Essentially this affects the employment in the economy at the moment. We are at full employment and probably beyond it. There is quite a lot of difficulty in filling positions. A spillover effect of the most recent increase in the national minimum wage has been cited. Does the ESRI know of any research that speaks about that and the change in the present balance that has been proposed?