Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The commitments which are contained in the programme for Government will be implemented. I cannot give Deputy Tóibín a date at this point for when that legislation will be introduced because, as he will be aware, we have already been engaged in a number of pieces of legislation in the area of the protection of workers' rights, such as the minimum wage, the introduction of the legislation on agency workers and the legislation which we committed to introduce following the High Court decision to strike down the joint labour committees, JLC, system. There is quite an agenda of legislation being pursued to protect the rights of workers and the legislation to give effect to the remaining commitments in the programme for Government will be progressed in due course.

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