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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: With respect, Ms McCabe still has not answered my question. A simple “Yes” or “No” will suffice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: Is Ms McCabe suggesting that there should be separate rates of pay for someone serving breakfast in a hotel in the morning?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: They are doing the same job.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: Hold on; let us bring that back. Is Ms McCabe seriously telling me that this person is going to serve twice as many sausages as the person who is 17?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: No, I am making an argument about equity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: If people do the same work, they should get paid the same pay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: No, not at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: Well, they are not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: We are talking about the lowest paid workers in the State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: Mr. McDonnell told us this is going to present a crisis in youth unemployment, which is nonsense.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: It seems to me that Mr. McDonnell is making an argument against having a minimum wage here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: I want to talk to our colleagues in Mandate first because it was an interesting point that Deputy Barry made. It is probably worth expanding on it a little. Is Mandate saying that there are well-known retail chains - very profitable companies - currently utilising sub-minimum rates of pay on a daily basis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: How can they possibly justify that given their levels of profitability?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: To direct the question in a different way to our colleagues from ISME, is it not grossly unfair on its members who pay the full minimum wage to have them competing against people paying sub-minimum rates of pay? As Mr. McDonnell has acknowledged, the majority of ISME's members do not pay sub-minimum rates of pay. That is what the evidence from the ESRI tells us. Is it not grossly unfair...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: Mr. McDonnell has other points to make in terms of broader issues. I do not think we would agree on them but it is probably worth having that conversation at some point, in fairness. I was intrigued by the enthusiasm for collective bargaining in an earlier reference Mr. McDonnell made. What percentage of ISME members recognise trade unions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: Is Mr. McDonnell saying he does not know what percentage of his membership recognise trade unions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: It is a glaring contradiction. ISME says it wants to take part in collective bargaining at State level but it cannot tell us what percentage of its membership recognises trade unions. I will put it out there that I would say it is a fairly round figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: Maybe ISME should start at local level. I will let my colleague from Mandate come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: So ISME wants to take part in collective bargaining but its members actively engage in union-busting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Gavan: What term would you use?