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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: 520. To ask the Minister for Health if PPCI intervention services are under threat at University Hospital Waterford. [24533/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: 521. To ask the Minister for Health the status of waiting lists for PPCI intervention at University Hospital Waterford. [24534/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: I remind members, visitors and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile phones are switched off or left in flight mode for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even when left in silent mode. I welcome Dr. Michelle O'Sullivan, lecturer in industrial relations, Dr. Juliet McMahon, lecturer in industrial relations and human resource...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: We will circulate them to the members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank Dr. O'Sullivan. We will start with some questions. Who would like to begin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Do you envisage any unintended consequences from the Bill as currently drafted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: If anybody else wishes to contribute, they are more than welcome to do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Part 3 of the Bill, on the provision of banded hour contracts, states: "A worker, or his or her trade union or a representative acting on his or her behalf, shall be entitled after a period of no less than 6 months of continuous employment with his or her employer, to request in writing of his or her employer to be moved to an increased weekly band of hours." There has been quite a lot of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Would Dr. O'Sullivan still recommend six months?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Pregnancy is an issue Dr. O'Sullivan mentioned, which has not come up in our past five meetings. Did women feel more unfairly treated by if-and-when and zero-hour contracts if they were pregnant or did they get what they were entitled to? Did the witnesses delve into that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank the witnesses for coming here today to engage with the committee and for all their work to date on zero-hour contracts. One thing they will notice from this committee is that we are all very much aware that there is an issue here. We have done much work trying to tease out exactly where the issues are, so we appreciate the witnesses coming in today. We will now suspend the meeting...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: I welcome Deputy David Cullinane and his adviser, Dr. Conor McCabe, to the second session of our meeting today to discuss the Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the House or an official either by name or in such a way as to make...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank Deputy Cullinane for his comments. Before I invite members to put their questions, the committee as a whole is in agreement that there is an issue around if-and-when contracts and zero hour contracts. The fact that the Government has published heads of a Bill on the issue in the past week supports that there is an issue. I agree with Deputy Cullinane that some of the organisations...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Is Dr. McCabe referring in that regard to the definitions of "worker" and "employer"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Ms Bolger and Ms Maguire welcomed the Bill. The committee's engagement with them was one of the best we have had. It was very constructive. They stated that the definitions of "worker" and "employer" as currently set out in the Bill are problematic because they are taken from different Acts. In regard to the definition of "worker" and the exclusion in that regard of "all people employed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: Was the intention to include or exclude those workers or was it an unintended consequence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: That is a fair point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: ICTU actually sought a timeframe of 18 months. As Deputy David Cullinane would not have been privy to this, when we met the University of Limerick study representatives, I questioned Dr. Michelle O'Sullivan again on the timeframes of six months, nine months, 12 months and whatever other timeframe might be suggested. She reiterated the figure of six months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Mary Butler: In order that we are all aware, we will not be taking amendments at this stage. I checked the position again this morning because obviously it is new to me also. The giving of a Second Reading to the Banded Hours Contract Bill was deferred until 7 July to allow the committee to engage in detailed scrutiny. Once that date is reached, the Bill will automatically be passed-----