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Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 20: In page 8, to delete lines 1 and 2.

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 22: In page 8, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “(iii) an employer who contravenes paragraphs (a) or (b) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine, a maximum of five years’ imprisonment or both.”.

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 24: In page 8, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(3) An employer who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine, a maximum of five years’ imprisonment or both.”.

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 25: In page 8, line 21, to delete “a notice” and substitute “notices”. This is the last substantial grouping of amendments. The key amendment is No. 26, which proposes that it is not sufficient to have one notice displaying the policy, as is currently the case under the Bill, but that as many notices as are required to be clearly visible...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 7: In page 6, lines 21 and 22, to delete “by an electronic mode of payment” and substitute “, including by an electronic mode of payment”.

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 10: In page 6, line 35, after “fair” to insert the following: “or in considering on foot of a workplace inspection whether or not a distribution under subsection (1) of tips or gratuities to an employee is fair”.

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 11: In page 7, to delete lines 3 and 4.

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 12: In page 7, line 5, to delete “and influence”.

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 13: In page 7, line 11, after “distributed” to insert the following: “where such an agreement is deemed to have been negotiated fairly with employees and is not itself manifestly unfair, it shall take precedence over other factors and circumstances”.

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I hear what the Tánaiste is saying and I do not dispute it. It is overwhelmingly likely that the majority of tip theft occurs on electronic payments. It is much easier for that to happen. The vast majority of bills these days are probably paid by cards rather than cash. However, the theft of cash tips definitely still happens, and the Tánaiste has acknowledged that. He...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 6: In page 6, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(1A) (a) An employer to which this section applies shall, within 6 months of the entry into force of this Act, negotiate an agreement with employees providing for tips or gratuities to be distributed in a fair manner. (b) An agreement under subsection (a) can be reviewed upon the request of...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: Is this not my amendment?

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I appreciate we have the same last name and it is a common name. It happens.

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I appreciate Deputy Catherine Murphy thinking on her feet and deciding she had no idea what this is so she had better withdraw it.

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, lines 19 to 26, to delete all words from and including “(1) The” down to and including line 26 and substitute the following: “(1) Sections 4B to 4F shall apply to all employers carrying on a business in the State in relation to which the payment of tips or gratuities by customers typically applies.”. I am...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I get another go, do I not?

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: Thanks very much, a Cheann Comhairle, or you could give it to the other Deputy Murphy if you want. I will have to read carefully around section 4F when the Tánaiste is next speaking, given the points he has raised. He is saying the regulations will apply in circumstances where the payment of tips typically applies in a section of the economy, but that is not the case, or not...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: Okay. I will withdraw it.

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, lines 18 and 19, to delete “by an electronic mode of payment” and substitute “, including by an electronic mode of payment”. The purposes of this - there are a number of amendments that are very similar - is to say this should not just apply to tips that are paid by electronic modes of payment, in other words, credit or debit...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (13 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: Either we have proposals and they are terrible or we do not have proposals. It cannot be both.