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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: Go raibh maith agat, a Theachta. As the Deputy will be aware, copyright legislation ensures that all authors and performers, including actors, performers, writers and directors, are protected by provisions of copyright legislation where the authors or performers choose to transfer their rights to another party, for example, to producers in the film and TV industry. The transfer of rights is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: It is regulated more.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: To clarify, Regulation 27 is about transparency. Once you have your transparency, Regulation 28 kicks in and that offers authors and performers a contractual adjustment mechanism when the remuneration originally agreed turns out to be disproportionately low compared to the success of their work. That is important to clarify. To be clear, the existing copyright legislation ensures that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: Well done.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Deputy alluded in his opening remarks to the fact that he has a Private Members' Bill on this issue. I draw the Deputy's attention to the line in the Low Pay Commission recommendation that states that sub-minimum rates should not be abolished before 1 January 2025. The reason for that is that the Low Pay Commission asked the Government to consider the report and its recommendations to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: There is international evidence that this has happened in other countries when decisions like this were taken-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: -----and that is part of the rationale for further investigation on this.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: It is not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: It is-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: To be clear, my intention is to look at the Low Pay Commission recommendations and do exactly what it said in terms of analysing them and looking at consequences, including unintended consequences. As I said, I do not want a situation whereby we have an unintended consequence of a change to people's working hours. Deputy Boyd Barrett has alleged that some industries are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: That is industry doing the right thing by these people. What we have is a situation where under-18s cannot necessarily work the same hours legally as those aged over 18 and cannot always do the same duty.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: We need to take that into account as well. That is why we are doing the economic impact assessment and looking at this further.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: As the Deputy will be aware, the Low Pay Commission was asked in 2022 to examine the issues around retaining or removing the sub-minimum youth rates of the national minimum wage and to make recommendations on the matter. The Low Pay Commission asked the ESRI to conduct background research on the issue under the terms of the Low Pay Commission and ESRI partnership agreement. This ESRI report...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Deputy is right that the initiatives he referred to are all really positive. Investing in the old Ambassador Theatre building and reopening the Iveagh Markets would be really beneficial to Dublin. Those are the kinds of projects the task force is considering. The task force has already met. It has 12 weeks to report to the Government. When we receive the report, we certainly will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Minister, Deputy Burke, chairs a hospitality and tourism forum that looks at a lot of the issues the Deputy has raised such as access outside working hours to hospitality, including cafés, and the importance of having a vibrant night-time economy. The Minister co-chairs the forum with the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin. That initiative shows the level of cross-departmental...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Respect at Work campaign has six recommendations seeking new protections for workers seeking to organise in workplaces. These proposals are being discussed and will be considered in the context of the action plan to promote collective bargaining. These discussions are ongoing and are happening at the moment. They were discussed at a meeting of officials in the technical working group...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Government is absolutely committed to protecting workers. The Doherty report, which we commissioned, is our path towards doing that. We got a progress report on it only this week and work is under way on its recommendations. That is agreed at this point as the review mechanism we are looking at to improve workers' rights. So far, only last month on 17 June, the Labour Court confirmed...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Government is absolutely committed to taking a holistic approach to rejuvenating Dublin city centre. We appointed a task force on 7 May 2024 to help the city centre to thrive as an attractive and safe city. Led by the Department of the Taoiseach, the task force held its first meeting on 21 May and has been asked to deliver its recommendations for consideration by the Government within...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: I am aware of the Respect at Work campaign, which is seeking new protections for workers wishing to organise in their workplaces. These proposals will be considered in the context of Ireland’s publication of an action plan to promote collective bargaining, as required by the EU directive on adequate minimum wages. Article 4 of the directive, promotion of collective bargaining on...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (11 Jul 2024)

Emer Higgins: Ireland operates a managed employment permits system maximising the benefits of economic migration and minimising the risk of disrupting Ireland’s labour market. The system is designed to facilitate the entry of appropriately skilled non-EEA nationals to fill skills and/or labour shortages in the State required to develop and support enterprise for the benefit of our economy. ...