Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)

I require 30 seconds more. The measure is being introduced to accommodate a minuscule subsection of those employed as agency workers. We are not asking the Minister to get rid of the concept of permanent agency workers. All we are asking him to do is stop permanent agency workers being excluded from the protections of the Bill. There is no point in introducing something that can be used as a loophole when there is no obligation to do so and it will benefit only a category comprising a tiny minority which we are not asking to be abolished. All we want is that these workers are not excluded from the protections in the Bill.

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