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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (13 May 2015)
Joan Collins: The recent strike at Dunnes Stores has highlighted the problem of low-hours contracts and precarious employment. Would the Minister be prepared to take action to stop this growing culture of extreme exploitation? When is the legislation from the Low Pay Commission going to be brought into the Dáil? We know that the State is now subsidising 40,000 working families with the family...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (13 May 2015)
Joan Collins: When does the Minister of State think that legislation will be brought through and the report will be finished and presented to us in the Dáil? The workers have gone on strike for a day already in Dunnes Stores because of their pay and conditions. There will also be a demonstration on 6 June. Dunnes Stores has agreed to increase wages by 3% and bring in four-week rotas, which is a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (13 May 2015)
Joan Collins: I welcome collective bargaining legislation and trade union recognition. That has been long awaited by workers across the State. We know the problems would be access to workers in their workplace. Those issues must be addressed because they are situations workers are facing at the moment. The State is subsidising big, profitable companies with a great deal of money through family income...
- Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (13 May 2015)
Joan Collins: 7. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the living wage, and that the introduction of a living wage of at least €11.45 per hour is essential to begin to address the inequality in our society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18408/15]
- Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (13 May 2015)
Joan Collins: I tabled this question to continue the debate on a living, rather than a minimum, wage. Many people support the concept of a living wage. Family income supplement, FIS, was mentioned and some 40,000 working families are in receipt of it. The minimum wage is not a living wage; it is the bare minimum the State deems a person should earn per hour. The concept of €11.45 per hour has...
- Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (13 May 2015)
Joan Collins: I welcome that sort of forum and participating in it. It is a key debate. In Britain the living wage, by law, is £7.56 an hour, but in the city of London there is a voluntary wage of £10.55, a concept which most employers have bought into on the basis that it is good practice, which is good to see. A wage of €11.45 per hour, considering sterling-euro exchange rates, is not...
- Other Questions: National Minimum Wage (13 May 2015)
Joan Collins: The concept of a living wage has to reflect the cost of everything else. The cost of child care in Ireland is among the highest in Europe due to the fact that it is not subsided in any way by the State. Transport costs and the fact child benefit is paid must also be taken into account. All of these issues must be weighed when working out what the national living wage should be. It is...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (13 May 2015)
Joan Collins: 23. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will confirm that the July 2015 deadline for the introduction of robust collective bargaining legislation is still on track; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18359/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Construction Contracts (13 May 2015)
Joan Collins: 25. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the appointment of the chairman for the panel of adjudicators will go before the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation; when the Construction Contracts Act 2013 will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18358/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (13 May 2015)
Joan Collins: 32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of 62,000 workers registered in the construction industry as self-employed, that is more than 50% of the total workforce, his views that this represents a significant level of bogus self-employment. [18369/15]
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)
Joan Collins: On Friday, people are being asked to engage in what I would deem a very meaningless exercise, by which I mean the referendum on reducing the age of eligibility to stand for president to 21 years. It is a nonsense. Everybody knows this is a sop to the Constitutional Convention, although many involved in the Constitutional Convention would not support this referendum at this time. There is...
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)
Joan Collins: We will be able to read it when it is produced.
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)
Joan Collins: If the Government does not have the money-----
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)
Joan Collins: We are very grateful.
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)
Joan Collins: Very broadly.
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)
Joan Collins: Fine Gael exclusively signed it.
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)
Joan Collins: They came up with-----
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)
Joan Collins: Not at all.
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)
Joan Collins: I listened to it.
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)
Joan Collins: Nearly 30 years after we had the debate.