Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

I would hope to publish this soon and I would hope to follow it up rapidly with legislative proposals to ensure there will not be a long hiatus. I accept we must be conscious of the needs of people who are on low pay, and that is the reason we have increased the national minimum wage, but we cannot have systems regarding, for example, varied approaches to overtime and Sunday working that are common across different regulations. These create inflexibilities, and we must see greater order and standardisation in the approach in different areas.

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