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Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: All we hear from the other side of the House is "there is no alternative" and "do not cut my wages".

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the cuts?

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I heard the Deputy on "The Late Debate" a couple of nights ago.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: He was not very good at answering the questions.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Audrey Carville asked the Deputy some hard questions.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is in our pre-budget submission.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is in our pre-budget submission.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The Deputy is a past master at it.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Muirsheen Durkan is sick and tired of working.

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Briefly, many employees do not even have a contract of work. Many employees do not have guidelines such as those to which the Minister of State has alluded. In addition, if there is a folder containing all that information within the office of the employer, the very act of an employee demanding this information creates a tension that can mean an employer then starts to consider this person...

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 11:In page 24, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “Employer obligation to maintain and produce employment records 26. An employer who does not maintain and produce employment records is liable to a penalty of €4,000, and where that employer is a company, the secretary of that company is liable to a separate penalty of €3,000.”.

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 12:In page 27, line 31, to delete “42 days” and substitute “28 days”.On amendment No. 12, Sinn Féin has sought to create a reasonable length of time by which an employer must appeal a compliance notice. Originally, I sought a period of two weeks in this regard but this was deemed to be too short. I noted that, recently, the Government...

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The reason I conflated together these two matters is theses are timescales by which the Government expects individuals to take action on something. There are two separate groups of individuals-----

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: One is an employer who has been found to have broken a law, etc.

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The other group comprises individuals who have had their rights taken away from them. Yet, were one to flip those timescales, there would be a logic to it. However, the timescales are shorter for those who have suffered. Moreover, there is conflation with regard to many different aspects of legislation. The figure used for fines in this process is a figure used in fines for driving...

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 14:In page 28, after line 37, to insert the following: “Liability of a company officer or officers for a breach of employment law 29. Where a breach of employment law is committed by a body corporate or by a company officer or officers acting on behalf of a body corporate and is determined to have been so committed, with the consent, connivance or approval of, or...

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 10:In page 24, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:"Employer obligation to display notice of employment rights in the workplace26. Every employer shall display in a prominent position in or at the place of work, being a place to which employees have regular access and in such a position that it may be read easily by employees, a notice or notices in a form,...

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The direction the Chair has given us regarding why our amendments have been deemed to be out of order is not the same as the direction we received from the Chairman of the Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when we considered this Bill on Committee Stage. Indeed, at the start of that debate we were directed to identify any amendments that we intended to propose on Report...

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (12 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 11 o’clock Before dealing with the content of the motion, it would be wrong for me not to highlight the terrible manner in which this legislation is being put through. Despite the lengthy consultative period and nearly €200,000 being spent on professional fees, the Department and the Minister of State's colleagues have undermined the work by hammering the Bill through the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (11 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Cuirim fáilte mór roimh na toscairí agus gabhaim buíochas leo as an gcur i láthair. The presentation has been interesting and it is good to see ICTU here. Ms King alluded to the fact that the lack of collective bargaining has left us with a massive problem. The result of this has been the collapse of the previous system and we are now trying to build the complex...