Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)

Perhaps the Chair can advise us on how we might deal with a situation such as this. The Minister indicated in her budget speech that she would introduce regulations effectively to deny part-time workers about €44 in benefit. What mechanism is open to us to deal with that through the legislation, given that it is not part of the legislation? We need a mechanism to allow Members to register their objection to this proposal and to be able to call for a vote on it in the House.

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