Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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Ms Pyke is making my point for me. There is no academic evidence; there is only a feeling. If we speak to someone working on a shop floor they will often say that what a person might lack in experience they will make up for in other ways and it will even out. That there are training rates, and that making a link to experience could not be done, points to the fact that experience is not really necessarily a determinant. In the case of people who are aged 16 and 17, there are clear restrictions on the work they can do in terms of hours worked and serving alcohol. They are a separate group. I am speaking about people who are aged 18 and 19. No employer has ever told me they pay them the lower rate but they do not expect the same level of work from them. It is very much that they are paid the lower rate, they sign the same contract, they turn up at the same time and they are expected to do the same work.