Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for her offer and I will certainly take her up on it. I have a number of cases that I can refer to her straight away.

In the context of what was said to me, I was informed that the Bill could not be brought to the Seanad during this session. I was also informed that it could not go to the Upper House unless we agreed to support the removal of the new section. In order to alleviate the distress being suffered by countless people who are on short-term, precarious, if-and-when types of contract, I agreed to do that in the interests of getting this substantive legislation onto the Statute Book straight away.

I thought that three months was a more appropriate timeframe for the report in order that its publication might coincide with emergence of the study being done by the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection. I take the Minister's point and I fully understand that three months would not be sufficient time in which to compile a proper report. Is the Minister giving an unequivocal commitment that she will compile such a report and that she intends to carry out this research?

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