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Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I am subject to correction but it is my understanding that if we vote against section 9 today, the Minister can reintroduce it as an amendment on Report Stage. Does that give us time to submit appropriate amendments to the amended section?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: It depends on when the amendments are published but it will be a very short timescale.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 13: In page 9, line 19, to delete “intimidation.”.” and substitute the following: "intimidation. (6) Where in any proceedings facts are established by or on behalf of a complainant from which it may be presumed that this section has been contravened the onus shall be on the respondent to prove the contrary.".". Section 10 contains various...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I will leave it there to be discussed.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: At the end of the case she made there, the Minister said she does not think this will effectively add anything to the Bill. In other words, she said it will not make any difference. I believe it would make a difference and that it would be a better Bill for the inclusion of the amendment. Just because I am not as enthusiastic about it as I was at the beginning does not mean I do not...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 15: In page 9, to delete lines 25 to 29 and substitute the following: "section 3(1A) unless the employee has been in the continuous service of the employer for more than 1 month.", ". I will be withdrawing this amendment. I put it forward on the basis that section 9 would be deleted. It is rather irrelevant.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: It is most unfortunate. This is a fundamental part of the Bill. If somebody is employed only 12 months and is dismissed, he or she can take a case to the unfair dismissals tribunal and get a maximum of 104 weeks' salary in compensation. If the person is employed for 11 months, he or she can get a maximum of four weeks' compensation. That seems wrong. I plead with the Minister to think...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: In view of the fact that my amendment No. 30 has been ruled out of order, it would encourage me strongly to support Deputy Brady's amendment if he wished to press it.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I strongly support Deputy Penrose's amendment on the basis that it has the same wording as the first part of my amendment, which was ruled out of order because of the second part. I will be supporting it.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: My amendment is slightly different from that of the Minister. I propose 13 months, as does Deputy Penrose. I do not have any difficulty accepting the Minister's amendment. The only reason I put in 13 months was that some of the trade union representatives I spoke to indicated that 13 months might be preferable to 12 because if people want to get the opportunity to bring a case for unfair...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I will not rehash all of the arguments made, but as I said, the category of workers the Bill seeks to protect is generally those on lower pay. From that point of view, it seems that the amendment is eminently sensible. As the legislation would be better for it, I will support it.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I appreciate that the Minister has come some distance from the Bill as originally drafted in narrowing the bands. We will never get perfection in this case and there is no magic solution. However, I believe the bands proposed by the Minister are still too wide. I believe it is important to have the bands as narrow as possible for several reasons. I realise the administration and the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: As regards my amendment, I accept the point that I should have started at three hours. Why I started at six hours I do not know, because my intention was to start at three. The Minister said a loophole does not exist in the view of industry but it would be no harm to make certain, so I would prefer something drafted along those lines to tie it down. I will withdraw my amendment but we will...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 38: In page 14, to delete lines 24 to 27 and substitute the following: A 6 hours 10 hours B 11 hours 15 hours C 16 hours 20 hours D 21 hours 25 hours E 26 hours 30 hours F 31 hours 35 hours ...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: The amendment would enhance the Bill.

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: There is a specific commitment in the programme for Government to "introduce a uniform homecare service so all recipients can receive a quality support, 7 days per week". As Deputy Curran said, it is meaningless to say, as the programme for Government does, that the Government is going to increase the funding every year because the numbers are running ahead of the funding and the situation...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I second that.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Protection Agency (23 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to remove the immunity from prosecution provided to the EPA in section 15 of the EPA Act of 1992, as was recommended by the Ombudsman in 2011; his views on whether one of the key weaknesses in the operations of the EPA is its immunity from prosecution (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (29 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 74. To ask the Minister for Health the reason more than 12,000 persons had been waiting over a year for an outpatient appointment in County Limerick hospitals in April 2018. [23551/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was advised that the waiting list for CT was 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23369/18]