Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Tóibín's amendment seeks to ensure that where the National Employment Rights Authority, NERA, identifies non-compliance with employment legislation, that information would be brought to the attention of the contracting body, which would be a public body, like a council, in respect of the main contractor. He proposes that this would be extended also to subcontractors, in respect of which NERA found some non-compliance. There is some merit in what Deputy Tóibín is putting forward and although I am not disposed to accept this specific amendment, because the drafting is not quite right, I will go back to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, OPC, and seek to introduce an amendment in the Seanad that meets this valid concern.

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