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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: The changeover. However, my interest here is that businesses can benefit considerably from being part of this and we are the committee of business. I do not know why it is not happening. I thank the Minister of State for his support for the suggestion.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Chairman.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: We call them seasonal employment permits but perhaps that term has certain connotations, as my colleagues have said. We need to recognise that there are certain jobs that only occur at certain times of the year. Flower-picking and fruit-picking come to mind. People can come in to do that work for a period of time and then leave, perhaps to do similar work somewhere else. If they are here...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: We are all on the same page with respect to exploitation and low wages and so on. I think the Minister of State agrees with us on that. We want to shine a light there and make sure that does not happen. Amendment No. 17 proposes to allow non-consultant hospital doctors to move from one public hospital to another within a two-year timeframe and the Department would have to be notified if...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: Page 9 of the Bill has a definition of a dependant as a foreign national who has been determined by the Minister to be a dependant other than a spouse or civil partner. Further on, the Bill mentions critical skills. Those here on an inter-company transfer are entitled to work but their partner or spouse is not. Quite often, they are here twiddling their thumbs. It would be unfair to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: The issue is that the spouse or partner of a person who comes here with a critical skills permit can work but the spouse or partner of someone who is here on an inter-company transfer cannot do so. They are very similar in many ways. I do not see why that is the case.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: I understand that.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: Yes.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: They are here. I have come across cases where such people have applied to work under a general employment permit and have not been allowed to do so. These people are highly skilled but they are not allowed to work.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: I get what Deputy O'Reilly is coming at and I agree. I think it is right. However, there is a problem with the amendment as it is worded. If an employer decides to be generous and dock a nominal amount from the wages, this amendment could prevent that from happening. There may be a problem with the wording. I agree with Deputy O'Reilly's sentiment but the other side of the coin has not...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: I am generally in favour of the thinking behind this. We had this discussion in the committee and had quite a number of representations on it. One of the things we have to be careful about is that our employment permit system at the moment is designed to cater for specific skills where there are needs, and that is fine. However, if somebody comes into the country under such a permit, are...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: An issue was brought to my attention recently about the children of workers who come here and when they go past the age of 18. They are treated as adults and a completely different approach is taken. In some instances these young people are in college or school and they may actually have to pay the full whack. They do not get any benefits at all because they are not seen to be under the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: There is an issue when a person is applying for a work permit and applying for the visa. Is there talk of bringing those two together?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: It would be very welcome if the Minister of State could make that happen.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: About streamlining the system and the work permits. I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: There have been instances in the past where inquiries have been undertaken by, for example, the Workplace Relations Commission that have led to the delaying or the holding up of work permits being issued. I would stress the need for any such inquiries to be expedited. For instance, if someone makes a false accusation against an employer and, as a result, an inquiry is instigated, while that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (29 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for being here to respond to this topic, which is something I feel strongly about. A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, with all due respect to the Minister of State, I did not receive notice that the housing Minister would not be here but that is something you might come back to me on, please, at some stage. The issue I raise has to do with clubs, organisations and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (29 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for her comprehensive and well put-together response. I will pick one or two things out of it. Her written response states that a "local authority may take such measures" and, subsequently, that the "local authority shall include" provision of both indoor and outdoor playing pitches and so on. When this does not happen, who pulls the local authority up on it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (29 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response and for the work she and her officials are doing in this area, which is very serious, especially given, as she told us, there were 1,500 such calls last year. I wonder how many of them caused damage to people and managed to defraud them, although she might not have that information to hand. I welcome the fact that, as she noted, the figure has fallen to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (29 Nov 2022)

David Stanton: I fully agree with the Minister that this is very important. I suggest she might ask, if it has not been done, that notices be placed in post offices, where people collect their pensions and other payments, outlining the risk. Sometimes people receive messages and they are not sure about whether they should respond. Most people are well-meaning and good-natured and want to be polite when...