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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: All those present in the room are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. Members are required to participate in the meeting remotely from within the Leinster House complex. Apologies have been received from Senators Paul Gavan and Róisín Garvey. Today we are going to discuss the cost of living, the minimum...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Dr. Bambrick. I now invite members to contribute to the discussion with the representatives who are here. I remind members who are joining us remotely to use the "raise hand" feature and, importantly, to take it down when they are finished speaking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: Dr. Bambrick's time is almost up and Mr. Berney might wish to come in on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: Just to clarify that, and I will not take from the Deputy’s time, we did invite them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: There were reasons that they could not make it. We will ask for written submissions from them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: Nobody else is indicating to speak. Unless people want to come back in a second time, I have a question for Dr. Bambrick. She said that 3% of companies have more than half of their staff on the minimum wage. Without mentioning any companies, do we know whether it is a particular problem with a number of bigger companies? Is one company distorting the 3% figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: That concludes our consideration of the matter today. I thank the representatives of ICTU for assisting the committee in its consideration of this important matter. The committee will consider the matter further as soon as possible. As I said at the outset, we did invite business groups to attend the committee and, unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, they were not available. We will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: It has been there since the legislation was introduced. The next speaker is Deputy Paul Murphy.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: As I have raised with the Taoiseach on many occasions, University Hospital Limerick, UHL, has almost the highest number of patients on trolleys every day. The high number per day in the emergency department, ED, means that it is in a perpetual state of crisis requiring continued cancellation of elective procedures. The number of people treated on trolleys so far this year is 14,370 people,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Morgan McKinley quarterly employment monitor, which was published last week, found that employers were struggling to fill entry-level graduate positions because young people were emigrating due to the lack of housing and the cost-of-living crisis. A protracted and acute shortage of affordable and social homes continues to have a profound effect on Ireland's economy and society. For...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: In recent weeks, the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment met representatives from a number of trade unions and others to discuss the recent minimum wage increase and the Low Pay Commission's recommendations on a living wage. As representatives of the Irish Congress of trade Unions, ICTU, pointed out at the joint committee last week, while much is made of Ireland having one of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: I was talking about the living wage, which is different and would enable workers to have a decent standard-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: Yes, but my question was on the living wage.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: Yes, but-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Government can accept that recommendation or not accept it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: The question was on the living wage.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: The resounding message from the Taoiseach following his trip to Belfast and his meetings with the North's political leaders yesterday was that Stormont must be restored. This echoes the call made by the majority of parties in the North, including mine. The MLAs simply want to get back to work. People in the North need their Ministers around the table working together to tackle the...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: I am disappointed that the Minister, Deputy Ryan, has left because there is an issue I want to raise with him. I have raised it with the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, and my colleagues have referred to it on a number of occasions. That is the issue of the community welfare officer and the exceptional needs payment, which simply is not working. We cannot put on a radio or television...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: 755. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a child (details supplied) who is awaiting a surgery appointment at University Hospital Limerick to have tonsils removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51469/22]