Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Could the Minister of State confirm the time line for the low pay commission? I know he has asked the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to begin pre-legislative scrutiny on the minimum wage Bill. I want to focus our discussion zero-hours contracts. Will they be the subject of separate action on the part of the Minister of State and will they come under the remit of the low pay commission? In particular, I want to see what work is under way at European level around zero-hours contracts, which are becoming a very unfortunate phenomenon of the economic recovery.

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