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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (24 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: Dr. Collins’s points about the sustainability of the State subsidising low pay and about in-work poverty came up in our last discussion. I would also like to hear Mr. O’Brien’s and Ms McElwee’s opinions on this matter. Most employers attempt to pay decent wages, but there are some big multiples in the retail sector which do not. They are profitable companies...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Jobs Data (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: I thank the Cathaoirleach, Senator Reilly and the Minister of State for their co-operation. I tabled this matter to discuss with the Minister of State the jobs situation in Waterford and the south east. Specifically, I wanted the breakdown of the jobs created and lost in IDA and Enterprise Ireland companies in Waterford. Some progress has been made in recent years and a spotlight has been...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Jobs Data (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: I thank the Minister for his response. It might be helpful if he would ask the enterprise agencies to forward a year-on-year breakdown from 2008 regarding jobs created and jobs lost. It would be more useful for assessing what progress has been made in recent years. The last time those figures were released was in 2013, so it would be interesting to see what advances were made last year....

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: I was at the protest yesterday outside the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in support of all the community workers about which Senator Hayden spoke. She is correct regarding all the issues she raised. There are real concerns over the realignment process, the future of jobs in the sector and the erosion and undermining of the bottom-up approach to community...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: Senator Ó Clochartaigh and I tabled many amendments on all these issues and all were voted down by the Labour Party, including, I suspect, Senator Hayden. It would be interesting to examine those amendments and what was said in the Seanad at the time to see who has been proven right.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: I suggest to Senator Hayden that she contact her ministerial colleague, the very Minister who is imposing what she is complaining about. I commend to the House a document published by Sinn Féin today displacing JobBridge. It would be useful to have a debate on such issues. There are significant concerns over many of the labour activation programmes and measures in this State. There...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: I support my two colleagues and the amendment. In a submission to the committee, the Employment Law Association of Ireland, ELAI, suggested this amendment and a number of other amendments as well. It noted that a number of employers do not provide proper statements setting out their full legal name. Some companies use a trade name and an employee believes they are employed by that business...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: When preparing for this debate and looking at the range of tabled amendments and the Bill itself, it was interesting to note a correlation between what the Minister is trying to do in this Bill and what is being done in the Companies Act. on which we had a lengthy debate in this House.There is an interrelationship between the two in many respects. I accept that some of this comes back to...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 29: In page 24, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "Employer obligation to display notice of Employment Rights in the workplace 26. Every employer shall display in a prominent position in or at the place of work, being a place to which employees have regular access and in such a position that it may be read easily by employees, a notice or notices in a...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: Basic information.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: To be fair the Minister has misrepresented the point I made. If he listened to what I said it was very clear we do not expect employers, and it would be unreasonable to do so, to put on notice or make available every piece of legislation that would impact on workers and workers' rights. The third element of the amendment is to have the contact details of the workplace relations service...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: If the Minister or his Department were to undertake research on workers' awareness of their rights and employment rights bodies, they would be astounded to find that, as Senator Craughwell stated, many do not know. As with anything else, unless one needs something, one does not give it much thought. The Minister mentioned NERA. If he were to survey workers in any factory, I wonder how many...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 45: In page 27, line 31, to delete “42 days” and substitute “28 days”.All of the amendments seek to do the same thing, so there is no problem with them being grouped. We are seeking to reduce the time an employer has to appeal a compliance notice from six weeks to four weeks. We previously sought two weeks when the Bill was before the...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: The Minister has not addressed the point. I ask him to reflect on it and to take on board the points we made. Why is it that the vast majority of citizens are given 28 days, which appears to be the standard, to make an appeal in most situations yet when employers are involved that does not appear to apply? In addition, one of the flaws in employment law is that often the enforcement,...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: I support the call for a debate on child care and will gladly second the amendment to the Order of Business if it has not already been seconded. Yesterday, there was a protest on the matter outside Leinster House. A number of issues are at play. Child care provision is a major issue for many families and the lack of State-provided child care services means that a large number of low-paid...

Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 11: In page 9, line 32, after "relations" to insert the following:"and protect, as a right, access for adopted persons to their birth family’s relevant medical history".This is my first contribution on the Bill, as Senator Ó Clochartaigh took the earlier Stages, but I wanted to commend the Senators who have introduced it. I will speak to the amendment. The...

Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: I will withdraw the amendment and may bring it forward on Report Stage.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: Senator Norris raised the issue of there being no sanction in this. This was done deliberately because what we are trying to do is to get the Minister to agree to the principle of an "offence". If that is agreed we can come back on Report Stage and consider an agreed sanction. We deliberately left out a sanction on the basis that we would ask the Minister to look at the issue as a...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: That was my point, and Senator Norris already articulated this point. Hypothetically, somebody might divulge sensitive information on somebody who was seeking a certificate of transition from officials and that information might then be leaked to the media or somebody else. However the individual who made the transition might have wanted that information kept confidential as it is their...