Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

With regard to the timing of the Bill relating to the JLCs-REOs, why can legislation dictated by the EU-IMF be rushed through but not legislation to protect low paid workers? Can the Taoiseach assure us, whatever about the timing of the legislation, that it is the Government's intention to ensure low paid workers covered by JLCs-REOs will not be financially worse off than they are now? That is the assurance the unions and low paid workers in the retail, catering and hotel sectors, hairdressers and so on, who are the working poor, want. They want an assurance that they will not be made poorer as a result of the legislation brought forward to deal with the issue. That is what the people and the unions representing low paid workers want to know.

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