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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: What subject did you teach?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: That is common in primary schools with resource teachers who are split between two or three schools.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Does she get paid during the holidays?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Is it the case that she gets paid for only the hours that she teaches?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Some of the secondary schools have autistic units, and I believe that those hours do not count towards the 300 hours. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Are there more primary than secondary ASD units?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: That is a very good point. I thank the witnesses for coming here today to engage with the committee. I propose that we suspend the meeting for a moment to allow our next guests to take their seats. It was very worthwhile. I thank the witnesses for all their information. I will certainly be in touch regarding those 300 hours. It is an anomaly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: I welcome Mr. Professor James Wickham, director, and Dr. Alicja Bobek, researcher, of Think-tank for Action on Social Change, TASC; Mr. Annie Hoey, president, and Mr. Daniel Waugh, vice president for campaigns of the Union of Students of Ireland; and Ms Edel McGinley, director, and Mr. Pablo Rojas Coppari, policy and research officer, of Migrant Rights Centre Ireland. Before we commence, in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: The Deputy is more than welcome. Is Ms Hoey going to make the presentation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank Ms Hoey for her presentation. I will bring in Deputy Bríd Smith before we hear the presentations from the other groups.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank Professor James Wickham for his opening statement. I invite Ms Edel McGinley and Mr. Pablo Rojas Coppari to make their opening statements.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Ms McGinley's comment on the 18 month period rather than six months is interesting. We have heard much discussion on this and Ms Patricia King of ICTU remarked that 18 months would be the correct way to go because for a lot of people who work seasonally, who work in tourism or similar industries, six months is not enough to categorise it. We have heard conflicting views and when we compile...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Why would somebody be asked to work for one hour? Is it to cover someone's lunch break?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: It is the first time we have heard about one-hour contracts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Deputy Tom Neville asked whether there was a contrast between rural and urban areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: I hear a lot about four-hour shifts, but I am surprised to hear about one-hour shifts. On four-hour shifts there is no need for a lunch or tea break.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: This is the first time the committee has heard about one-hour shifts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: It is character building.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: I agree with Ms Hoey that there is a correlation there between the amount of work a student has to do and level of success at exams. Students do have to work though. There is no doubt about that. I am from the constituency of Waterford. Everyone else is from Limerick. We do not have a university in Waterford. We have a fantastic institute of technology, but many students travel to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Mary Butler: If it took 12 or 18 months before a student could get the certainty of employment that the Bill is trying to achieve, is it likely that they would stay in a job for that length of time in order to get that certainty?