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Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move amendment No. 4:In page 10, to delete lines 7 to 10.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: If it is Deputy O'Dea's view that the Bill will not apply to casual workers it is misinterpretation, because the only derogation regarding casual employment in the Bill is with regard to zero-hour contracts. Every other part of the Bill applies to every other worker. An employer may employ an individual on zero-hour contracts if the work is truly of a casual nature. I distributed some of...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The amendment refers to the look-back and look-forward reference period. I listened to the Deputies' concerns on Second Stage and I am therefore happy to be able to say we compromised and reduced the reference period from 18 months, our initial offering, to 12 months with respect to banded hours. The reference period was selected for several reasons. As Deputy Brady noted, it is the normal...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move amendment No. 12:In page 15, to delete lines 11 and 12. On Committee Stage, Deputy Joan Collins, who proposed the amendment along with Deputy Clare Daly, stated that it was based on EU Directive 97/81/EC on part-time work, which this country had not implemented yet. The Deputies were mistaken in this regard because Ireland has fully transposed the directive. That was confirmed by a...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: For quarter 4 of 2017, the increase in employment was 66,800 new jobs. This represents an increase in full-time employment of 90,000 new jobs, which as an increase of 5.4%. We had a decrease in part-time employment of 23,000, which is 4.8%. The recovery is producing more full-time decent paid jobs and reducing the number of part-time jobs which we are here trying to protect and improve. ...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: I did not interrupt other speakers. The views expressed by Mr. Foley's are his own personal views because he did not have the time formally to call a division of the court. He is the chair of the Labour Court and I hold him the highest of esteem. Mr. Foley agrees that if the legislation is written as it stands post amendment, it will give rise to a certain level of chaos at a practical...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: I was.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: I do not think I need two minutes just to reiterate what I have already said. I refer back to the two specific items that two Deputies raised. The penalisation provisions in the Organisation of Working Time Act, as amended by this Bill, will protect Dunnes Stores workers. There is already protection under the industrial relations legislation against penalisation of workers for being trade...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: Many people are genuinely waiting for us to pass this legislation. If we keep putting obstacles in the way, we will be back here this time next year, not in the autumn.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move amendment No. 13:In page 16, line 19, to delete “intimidation.” and substitute “intimidation.”.”. These amendments are intended to delete the new section 26A, which was inserted on Committee Stage into the penalisation provision of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. These amendments have been brought forward for essentially the same reasons...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move amendment No. 14:In page 16, to delete lines 20 to 26.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The school meals programme provides funding towards the provision of food to some 1,580 schools and organisations benefitting 250,000 children at a total cost of €54 million in 2018 representing an increase of €6.5 million over the previous year. €1.7m of the additional funding will go towards including additional schools in the scheme and supporting some 16,000...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Roadmap for Pensions Reform, which was published by the Government earlier this year, details specific measures that will modernise our pension system. It sets out under Strand 4, ‘Measures to Support the Operation of Defined Benefit Schemes’, that the Government is committed to advancing the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 to respond to the ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Income Data (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The latest Eurostat European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data show that the severe material deprivation rate for lone parent households was 23.2% in Ireland in 2016. The Irish rate compares to the EU average of 15.7% in 2016 (see Table 1). The full impact of the recovery is not reflected in these figures, which relate to 2016. Macro-economic and labour market indicators have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Consultancy Contracts Data (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The information requested is currently being compiled by my Department and will be provided to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The tables below provide the details which have been requested by the Deputy for the years 2012 to 2017 and to the end of June 2018. The figures provided in the tables for appeals which had a favourable outcome for the appellant relate to appeals which were either allowed in full or in part by an Appeals Officer, or which were resolved by way of a revised decision in favour of the appellant...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The National Policy Framework for Children and Young People (Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures), published by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in 2014, includes a target to reduce by two-thirds the number of children in consistent poverty in 2011 by 2020. Meeting this target means lifting almost 95,000 children out of poverty by that date. Under the BOBF Framework, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The table provides the details which have been requested by the Deputy to the end of June 2018. It only includes the appeal processing times for schemes paid on a weekly basis. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) formally advised my Department, on 21st February 2018, that their first preliminary report on the PSC would be sent the Department in mid-March for comment. No further communication has been received from the ODPC since this notification was received. The Department’s schemes and services are subject to investigation or audit...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Advertising Campaigns (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department administers over 70 separate schemes and services, which affect the lives of almost every person in the State, with each week almost 1.6m people receive a social welfare payment. The Department is fully committed to ensuring that members of the general public are fully aware of the many and varied welfare supports and services available to them, as well as to ensuring key...