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Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: On amendment No. 15, section 5 of the Bill inserts a new section 10C in the 2000 Act and provides for the function of the commission on low pay. In addition to making an annual recommendation report to the Minister on the national minimum hourly rate of pay, new section 10C(4) provides that the commission may be requested by the Minister to examine and report on such matters related generally...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I appreciate that Senator Keane has made contact with my office in that regard and there has been some correspondence. The Low Pay Commission will be looking at a range of sectors in the economy and different issues around low pay. I appreciate and accept what Senator Keane said. The child care sector is an extremely important one for society. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs,...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: In relation to amendment No. 18, section 6 inserts a new section 10D in the 2000 Act to the effect that: 10D.(1)Within 3 months of the date of receipt of a recommendation and report submitted to him or her under section 10C(2) and having considered the report and recommendation and having had regard to section 10C(3), the Minister may—(a) by order declare a national minimum hourly...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: No.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I am sorry.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I will repeat what I said earlier and what I have been saying since this concept first started to evolve under my aegis. The ESRI report pointed out in 2006 that there was a danger and a fear, certainly in the business community, about infrequent large step-changes in the national minimum wage. We are modelling this system very closely on the model that has been applied in the UK since the...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: Amendment No. 21 proposes to introduce a new section 7 to the Bill to introduce anti-victimisation protections for workers who have made a statement or have given evidence to the Low Pay Commission via their representative organisation.As the House will be aware, there are already a considerable number of protections in place for workers who consider that they have been the subject of...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: This is a technical amendment to correct an incorrect reference to a subsection in the Act of 2000.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I appreciate the spirit in which the proposed amendment has been tabled.It provides for a nine-member commission, comprising an independent chair and three members who have a deep understanding of the interests of low-paid workers. It will also comprise three members, as Senator Quinn outlined, who have a deep understanding of the interests of employers, particularly small to medium-sized...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I am complimenting them.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: As they are members of a commission appointed by the Government, I do not think they will have any difficulty being referred to in that light. Deputy Norris, I mean Senator Norris, I apologise that I may have demoted him.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: As I stated on Second Stage, these are members from trade unions and civil society who have spent their entire professional lives, often in voluntary capacities, representing the interests of working people, particularly those in low pay or those on the margins of our society and economy. The commission will not just be confining itself to desk-bound analysis of detailed economic and...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: Section 3 of the Schedule to the Bill deals with the resignation and termination of office of members of the Low Pay Commission. Section 3(2)(c) provides that the Minister may remove a member of the commission from office if, in the opinion of the Minister, the member has not complied with section 14 of the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995 in the performance of his or her functions as a...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: This amendment addresses a grammatical error in section 5(1) of the Schedule to the Bill where the word "is" is included twice in succession.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: Trade unions must take the case.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: Only the trade unions have access to the Labour Court.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Order for Second Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to introduce the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015 for the consideration of the House. For several years there have been gaps in the statutory framework as regards workers who seek to better their terms and conditions either through collective bargaining or by means of registered employment agreements, REAs. These...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: By now both the politicians and those who report on us have recovered from the bout of bank holiday giddiness that took hold the weekend before last. Talk of a constitutional crisis that threatened to put the organs of State at loggerheads was very quickly and calmly dispelled by a few quiet words from Mr. Justice Binchy. Like everybody in this House, I welcome the statement by Mr. Justice...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Retention (28 May 2015)

Gerald Nash: I understand that the closure of the supermarket in question related to a private commercial dispute between the supermarket and the owner of the shopping centre in which it is located. I understand further that the employees of the supermarket had been informed that they should report for work in the normal way as rostered and that they would continue to be paid. I welcome the fact that the...