Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

My particular worldview is one that would have been shared by the Labour Party not long ago. It is the idea that no one who is in work should be living in poverty. We should not be the second highest country in the OECD in terms of prevalence of low pay. We should not have 20% of workers living in deprivation. I do not think that is such a radical worldview.

What will the Government do about this?

A key point made in the report was on the rising cost to the State of income supports. The State is subsidising low-pay, precarious employers through the likes of the family income supplement, FIS. Will the Government take action to eliminate what are largely the equivalent of zero-hour contracts and introduce banded-hour contracts and guaranteed-hour contracts so that people might know what hours they must work, plan accordingly and have enough money on which to survive?

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