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National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 5:In page 4, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:"(a) has due regard to Ireland’s human rights obligations to guarantee the right to just and favourable remuneration,".I tabled the amendment because it often seems that this is a typical debate that is had between left and right on the issue of wages and that it is an insular Irish issue but this is not...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 2:In page 3, line 8, to delete “related matters” and substitute “matters related to low pay”.We have had this discussion on a number of occasions in respect of a number of Bills, but the point must be made again now. Low pay and under-employment are entrenched within the Irish system. That means for hundreds of thousands of individuals the...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Instruction to Committee (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Mar a dúirt an tAire Stáit, reachtaíocht teicniúil agus casta atá i gceist anseo. Mar a dúirt sé roimhe seo, is reachtaíocht uaillmhianach é. Glacaim leis go mbeidh leasuithe riachtanach roimh lá tosaithe an choimisiúin. Aontaím leis an Teachta Calleary nár cheart go mbeadh na leasuithe ag teacht chugainn sa tslí seo....

Order of Business (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015 is an important Bill which both the Tánaiste and I want to see delivered upon. Ireland has suffered massively in the last number of years with regard to low pay, which has become entrenched. There is a precariat in society consisting of those who cannot get proper employment or, at least, the hours they need to support their...

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Many companies split into different companies.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Can the Tánaiste not prevent that?

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I am asking the Tánaiste to prevent this situation happening. She is cleaning up the problem, not preventing it.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Tánaiste's job is to prevent it happening in future.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: And let them get away with it.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Tánaiste said it is despicable.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: She said it is predatory capitalism.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: We do accept.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It is when they are used to insulate them from responsibilities to workers.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Deputy Stagg is absolutely right when he disagrees with the Tánaiste's argument that cutting the incomes of lone parents will get them out of the poverty trap. The two-faced aspect of his actions is that he is expressing such views locally while voting the other way in the Dáil.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Even worse, he is whipping all the other Labour Party Deputies to make this deep cut in the incomes of people who are in poverty.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Duplicity is also at the heart of the Clerys debacle. Almost a month has passed since the staff and concession holders of Clerys were turfed out onto the street by liquidators. All they have received from the Labour Party so far is a two-faced response. The Tánaiste and her Government colleagues have described the actions of the new employers as absolutely despicable, insensitive and...

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Nobody is making that suggestion.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Nobody on the planet has made that suggestion.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Tea and sympathy.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Nobody is sowing doubts.