Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is open now for the first time to new entrants and seasonal workers.

The Deputy knows that the Low Pay Commission is not the Government. It is an independent statutory body and the Deputy knows that, yet she came in here this morning trying to pretend that the Low Pay Commission is an arm of the Government. It is not. It is an independent body set up by this Oireachtas, including the Deputy. She makes political charges when it suits her and does not deal with reality.

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