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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand that. I do not want to put words in the mouths of the sponsors of the Bill but I think what they want to do is take away from an employer the option of having the facility there to access cheaper and cheaper labour. The Department's submission refers to those who advocate for the retention of these rates doing so because they believe they are necessary to reflect different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Ms Pyke is making my point for me. There is no academic evidence; there is only a feeling. If we speak to someone working on a shop floor they will often say that what a person might lack in experience they will make up for in other ways and it will even out. That there are training rates, and that making a link to experience could not be done, points to the fact that experience is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: There is no evidence to support not eliminating this. When I look around for evidence, employers cannot provide it but they say they feel it. It is little bit like when the minimum wage was introduced and we heard terrible tales of woe about all of the businesses that were going to close but it did not happen. Perhaps there is a little bit of that with the people who are arguing against...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Sorry to interrupt but I am well aware of all those non-specific schemes. I am talking specifically about the submission that was made about the elimination of sub-minimum rates of pay and the reference in it to the potential need for supports for those employers who could be affected were this legislation to be enacted. I am aware of the generality and catch-all, although some would say it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay. Has the ESRI been asked to do that work? Is it doing it at the moment or is it part of a bigger body of work it is doing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Is there any timeline on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It is all part of the economic impact assessment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That is fine. Those are all my questions. I thank the Chair and the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I turn to previous recommendations of the Low Pay Commission. It obviously recommended the introduction of the sub-minimum rates. How quickly was that done and how much assessment was done? How much of a delay was there? Deputy Murphy has pointed out that there is a bit of a time lag between the recommendation and any potential action. How fast does it usually happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms Pyke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That is what I am saying. In the intervening time, how many reports - by Indecon or the ESRI, or whoever - were done and how much stakeholder consultation was done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay. That would be important because it seems like a lot of questions have to be asked when the balance is shifting in the other direction. The committee would benefit from having that.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Urban Development (23 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 6.To ask the Taoiseach further to his correspondence of 20 June 2024 (details supplied) regarding the newly established Dublin city centre task force, if a representative of the Department of Health, or a representative specialising in harm reduction, will be appointed to the task force. [31510/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (23 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 534.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Irish-registered companies, by sector, which traded with Germany in 2023, in tabular form. [30986/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (23 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 536.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing Enterprise Ireland funding by 5%, 10%, 20%, 25% and 50%, in tabular form. [31170/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (23 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 537.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing IDA Ireland funding by 5%, 10%, 20%, 25% and 50%, in tabular form. [31171/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (23 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 538.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing Local Enterprise Office funding by 5%, 10%, 20%, 25% and 50%, in tabular form. [31172/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Functions (23 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 539.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of establishing the co-operative development unit within his Department. [31173/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (23 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 540.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing InterTrade funding by 5%, 10%, 20%, 25% and 50%, in tabular form. [31174/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 541.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing funding for the innovation voucher scheme by 50% and 100%, in tabular form. [31176/24]