Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is quite a bit to unpack there, but I think the Deputy will accept the time lag between when the report was published and what has happened since has seen many of the breaches rectified. On a couple of points the Deputy made, the rates of minimum pay for workers of a certain age are under review by the Low Pay Commission. We discussed that during the last session of parliamentary questions. On the ban on strikes for members of the Defence Forces, I must pay credit to the Minister for his work during his time as Minister for Defence and his real engagement with PDFORRA and RACO to ensure they can make representations at pay negotiations. We have a situation there. We discussed collective bargaining during the last session of oral parliamentary questions. The Government is looking at this with regard to wider European efforts on both collective bargaining and adequate rates of minimum wage. I hope to see progress on this in the coming months.

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