Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, United Left) | Oireachtas source

I welcome that sort of forum and participating in it. It is a key debate. In Britain the living wage, by law, is £7.56 an hour, but in the city of London there is a voluntary wage of £10.55, a concept which most employers have bought into on the basis that it is good practice, which is good to see. A wage of €11.45 per hour, considering sterling-euro exchange rates, is not too far from that. Employers used to pay a Dublin rate and a rural rate in the retail sector. Is that something the Minister of State is considering regarding a living wage concept nationally?

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