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Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: I added in amendment No. 137.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: My apologies.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: Changes have been accepted. Some of the Government amendments reflect amendments put forward by the Opposition.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: They are not. Three or four amendments were put forward at an earlier stage.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: No. Quite a few were taken on board from members of the Opposition, including Deputy Peadar Tóibín. There are two others that were already taken. On the first two days of discussion of the Bill, amendments were introduced by the Government on foot of representations.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: The aim is that we get the amendments we want.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: Members should be happy with that. It is not the case that we are refusing to make any changes. The problem with this amendment is this. I have already quoted instances where such provisions are in use. It is not that we are saying Senator Norris is wrong with this amendment. We are only saying that the scope of this Bill, and the public consultation that went along with it, did not...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: The concern is that the amendment changes the nature of this Bill.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: It changes the scope of the Bill. We went out to consultation with one version. If one completely changes the scope, it defeats the consultation. That is standard procedure with legislation being brought through here. Senator Norris is unhappy with it.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: No.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: The public consultation on this Bill was mainly to do with the structures, not principles.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: I am afraid we are on similar grounds to the previous amendment. The amendments to the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 that have been proposed by the Senator would also constitute a substantial rather than a procedural amendment to that legislation. As I have already stated in response to the previous amendments, substantive changes to employment rights legislation such as that proposed by...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: I wish to inform the House that I intend to introduce amendments of a technical and drafting nature to Schedules 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 on Report Stage. I also wish to inform the House that I intend to introduce two new Schedules to the Bill on Report Stage. These schedules are purely of a technical and drafting nature and they will set out the relevant redress provisions in the individual...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: Amendments Nos. 140, 141 and 142 are required to ensure that all necessary and appropriate appeals of existing legislative provisions are captured and that no provision that is required in the future is inadvertently appealed.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: Amendments Nos. 143 to 145, inclusive, to Schedule 4 reorder the lists of Acts referred to the schedule in chronological order for ease of use, and make minor corrections to the sections of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997, non-compliance with which may be the subject of a compliance notice issued by an inspector.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: Amendments Nos. 146 and 147 delete a superfluous reference to a regulation in the European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003 and delete a duplicated reference to the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: I am glad the Leas-Chathaoirleach achieved agreement on that grouping anyway. Amendment Nos. 148 to 199, inclusive, to Schedule 6 set out the consequential amendments that it will be necessary to make to other employment enactments and statutory instruments as a result of the new structures for the adjudication of complaints and disputes that will be introduced by this Bill. Amendment Nos....

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Damien English: This amendment merely proposes a reordering of the wording to correct an error in syntax, and it involves no substantive change to the Bill's Long Title.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Damien English: The number will be 72,000 in training.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Damien English: I agree with the Deputy that there has been a major reform in this area in the past couple of years. There is no doubt about the long-term benefits. We should try to move as quickly as we can to benefit from them now. Much reform also took place in 2014 and there were budget changes because of all the reallocations to the different centres. It is important to use the reform structures as...