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Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 11: In page 4, to delete line 34 and substitute the following: “employer’s case, and (d) employers who are party to a collective agreement negotiated with a recognised trade union or staff association to consult with the trade union or staff association concerned both prior to and following upon the publication of the information referred to in...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 13: In page 4, to delete lines 38 to 41, and in page 5, to delete lines 1 to 10 and substitute the following: “(3) Regulations made under this section shall not apply to an employer having fewer than 20 employees.”. These are the amendments seeking to lower the threshold at which the legislation will apply to different organisations. I spoke on...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his response. I would always defer to Senator Sherlock on matters of statistics. Her figures are from 2018, so I am sure the Minister arrived at 65% of employers and at that point the threshold of 50 employees would have captured 57.5% of all employees. That may well have gone up, as the Minister said, to 65%. The point is this will only be the case once the...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 22: In page 5, line 11, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”. I will speak to amendments Nos. 22 and 24 and I referred to this matter on Second Stage. These amendments seek to substitute "shall" for "may" in two instances, in section 20A(4) and section 20A(5). It is an attempt to address the lack of specificity in the provisions, which...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Ivana Bacik: Certainly, we will all be very anxious to know what is in the regulations. That is clear. It would be helpful to have more clarity on it. I will not press the amendment at this stage. I will withdraw it and reserve the right to reintroduce it at a later stage.

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 24: In page 5, line 22, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”. I will withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 25: In page 5, line 23, after “manner” to insert “(which shall include, if the employer concerned maintains a website, publication on that website)”. This amendment, which is drafted in the same spirit as amendments Nos. 22 and 24, seeks to ensure there is greater clarity about what will be prescribed in the regulations. We have specified...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Ivana Bacik: Briefly, given the long incubation period, there is a slight concern still that there is not greater clarity. One would assume there will be a centralised website. That seems to be the model elsewhere in most other jurisdictions, where it is not only a requirement that employers would publish on their own website, which adds to the administrative burden on employers, particularly once we...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 26: In page 5, lines 23 and 24, to delete “(which shall not be more frequent than once in each year)” and substitute ‘‘(which shall be at least annually)’’. The legislation provides that it will "not be more frequent than once in each year". We are putting it somewhat differently with "at least annually" to give greater...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 27: In page 5, line 27, after “relates,” to insert “and their recognised trade union or staff association (if any),”.

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 28: In page 5, to delete lines 29 and 30 and substitute the following: “(6) (a) Regulations made under this section shall require the employer to publish information in respect of a public body and, for the purposes of this paragraph, a person holding office in or employed in the service of a public body is deemed to be an employee of that public body.”....

Seanad: Offences against the State Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (22 Jun 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, to the House. I am pleased to speak for the Labour Party on the annual renewal motions. Like other colleagues, I have spoken for a number of years now on these motions as they come before us. I also have a particular interest in this, having practised for several years in the Special Criminal Court in different trials as a defence...

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I thank her for coming in, on foot of a request I made last week to the leader of the Seanad, to have this important debate. I ask her to relay our concerns back to the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, as I know she will. This has been a long saga. We have seen many years of obfuscation, Byzantine legal deliberations and much lack of...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jul 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and welcome this urgent and practical Bill. Clearly, it is important that we have certainty and clarity in the law around outdoor hospitality for licensed premises. It simply was not good enough, either for the Garda or for those running such premises, to be told that it would be left to the discretion of gardaí. Nor, indeed, was it good...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, line 21, to delete "as soon as is reasonably practicable" and substitute "immediately".

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister and I thank Senator Boyhan for seconding the amendment. We had a debate on this provision on Committee Stage so I will not delay proceedings. The amendment is about delay and it seeks to ensure the publication of guidance to give effect the Bill's provisions would come in immediately after commencement. This is simply to avoid any further delays in the introduction...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his very clear response and commitment to have the regulations introduced as swiftly as possible and without delay. I thank him for clarifying that. There has been a pattern at every stage of the debate on this Bill and when I brought my related legislation through the Seanad and my colleagues steered it through the Dáil.We have sought to work constructively...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, to delete line 25

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Ivana Bacik: Again, I raised this issue on Committee Stage. I thank SIPTU for raising with me the need to ensure there is explicit recognition of the role of trade unions in making this legislation effective across workplaces and in working constructively to ensure we address the gender pay gap. We are all conscious of the 14% gender pay gap that persists in this country and the fact that so many women...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2021)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his comments about the amendments and I take the point about the directive. Indeed I noted that on Committee Stage. However, there is concern in the trade union movement that the voluntarist model of collective bargaining in industrial relations has not necessarily served its members as well as it could. This is a problem we face at broader level. The Minister...