Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The direction the Chair has given us regarding why our amendments have been deemed to be out of order is not the same as the direction we received from the Chairman of the Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when we considered this Bill on Committee Stage. Indeed, at the start of that debate we were directed to identify any amendments that we intended to propose on Report Stage. We did that outside of the Committee Stage debate itself. When I asked whether we should mention these matters again during the debate itself, I was told there was no need to do so. Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, are very basic. The Employment Law Association of Ireland made a submission to the committee suggesting that many employees are having difficulty because the names of the companies or businesses for which they work are not necessarily the same as the trading names of those companies. The association pointed out that there is no requirement for those trading names to appear on the documentation of these companies. On occasions, submissions in front of the Labour Relations Commission and the Employment Appeals Tribunal have been thrown out because mistakes were made about companies' names. These amendments were tabled as part of a simple and clear effort to reduce the cost and time burden on the State apparatus and make it easier for employees.

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