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Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 10: In page 12, line 12, to delete "24 months" and substitute "12 months". These amendments address the maximum duration for a derogation under the inability to pay clause. The issue was discussed on Committee Stage but needs to be discussed again. There is no doubt that the small business sector is in major difficulty and that the Government needs to do all it can to...

Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 11: In page 12, line 24, to delete "24 months" and substitute "12 months".

Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 12: In page 13, line 5, after "business" to insert the following: ", including information on payments to directors and companies associated with directors over the previous 3 years,". This amendment relates to the ability of employers to seek exemptions. As previously stated, it is necessary on occasion for businesses which are severely hard pressed and which have an...

Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I take the Minister's point but the Bill states: An application under subsection (4) shall be accompanied by— (a) a current tax clearance certificate. It makes a specific determination that the tax clearance certificate is required. It is always of interest to the State that taxes are in order. It also refers to "such information, particulars and documentation as the Court may reasonably...

Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 13: In page 17, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: "(i) maintaining of fair and sustainable rates of remuneration appropriate to the sector in question;". Section 41A(3) states: "When carrying out a review under subsection (1), the Court shall have regard to the following". My understanding was that the aim of legislation was to maintain a fair and...

Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 14: In page 17, lines 44 and 45, to delete all words from and including "and" in line 44 down to and including "so," in line 45.

Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 15: In page 17, lines 48 to 50, to delete all words from and including "or" in line 48 down to and including "recommendation," in line 50.

Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 16: In page 19, to delete lines 13 and 14. These are similar amendments with similar objectives. Equality proofing is a core standard I try to bring to legislation. If a nationality or religion was barred from achieving a certain wage, we would say it is not acceptable. If a citizen is over 18 years of age, whether he has just come out of college or was working just...

Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: A potential situation is that an individual goes to college and gets a degree. He or she finds there is no job for him or her in the labour market and he or she does a master's degree. When he or she again finds there is no job for him or her in the labour market, he or she does a PhD and then enters the labour market at the age of 24 years. The Minister can correct me if I am wrong, but...

Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 18: In page 19, lines 45 and 46, to delete "the desirability of agreeing and maintaining" and substitute "the agreeing and maintaining of".

Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I add my support to the amendment. It is logical, given that there are hundreds of thousands of working poor in the State. People are going without meals, medical care and heat. Others are selling their cars because they cannot put fuel in them. People arrive at petrol stations with five gallon drums in order that they can put enough kerosene in them to heat their house for one week....

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Legislative adventurism sounds like a new minority sport and hopefully it is not an extreme sport. One reason 200,000 people are long-term unemployed - that is, they have been unemployed for approximately the same length of time as the present Government's period in office - is upward-only rent reviews. I have prepared legislation in respect of upward-only rents that is waiting to go...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, lines 37 to 39, to delete all words from and including "or" in line 37 down to and including "agreement," in line 39.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 5: In page 9, lines 10 and 11, to delete all words from and including "and" in line 10 down to and including "so," in line 11.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 6: In page 9, lines 16 to 18, to delete all words from and including "or" where it firstly occurs in line 16 down to and including "order," in line 18.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 7: In page 10, lines 27 to 29, to delete all words from and including "and" in line 27 down to and including "so," in line 29.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 8: In page 10, lines 35 to 37, to delete all words from and including "or" where it firstly occurs in line 35 down to and including "cancellation," in line 37.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, line 4, to delete "the desirability of agreeing and maintaining" and substitute "the agreeing and maintaining of". Every time we begin a debate on this issue, it is important to put it in the context of what we are trying to achieve. Today we heard the shocking figure that the unemployment rate has increased to 14.9%. It has reached crisis level. The...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I am disappointed with the Minister's view on this. The section states that the court shall have regard to the benefits of the consultation, the experience of registration, the potential impact on employment, the levels of employment and unemployment in the sectors in question. In referring to those sectors, it is more definite in their reference and in the ingredients of the decision...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, lines 31 and 32, to delete all words from and including "and" in line 31 down to and including "so," in line 32. Legislation is made not only for today and tomorrow but, potentially, for generations to come. We must develop and create that legislation to deal with eventualities that may not necessarily be in the objectives or the mind of the current...