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Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I acknowledge that the Minister made an amendment on Committee Stage. Nevertheless, I did not envisage a JLC undertaking a deep analysis of poverty, sociological studies, etc. I suggest that, when a JLC formulates its proposal, account should be taken of the fact that the more one depresses the wages of the lower paid, the more poverty and unemployment there will be.

Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I note that amendment No.9 is being taken in conjunction with amendments Nos. 24 to 26, inclusive, and I wish principally to address my remarks to those amendments. Under the Industrial Relations Act 1946, if employees felt they were not getting a fair wage in accordance with the terms of an employment regulation agreement or if they were working excessive hours or too few hours and so on,...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I tabled a similar amendment on ERAs, amendment No. 22. To add to what has been said, one of the reasons the JLC system was struck down by the High Court in John Grace Fried Chicken Ltd & Ors v. Catering JLC & Ors was that the committee was acting on its own without proper supervision and there was no set of principles to govern the decisions the committee had to make. We have set out the...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: First, I wish to make clear that I do not question in any way the bona fides of the particular Minister opposite. Nevertheless, if this is the advice of the Attorney General, I would seriously question that advice on foot of my own reading of the case. If one reverts to the High Court case, that court was presented with a scenario whereby these committees, which were set up to provide pay...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The minimum wage example is not a precedent and is not a proper argument in this context. We are dealing with something entirely different and we are, therefore, comparing apples and oranges here. I accept that having everybody at the Minister's whim is not what he wants to do. However, my argument is that this is effectively what the Bill does. The Minister states there will be...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 9: In page 11, lines 14 to 16, to delete all words from and including "if" in line 14 down to and including "circumstances," in line 16. This is about representation and how an aggrieved person brings his or her case. As things stood under the Industrial Relations Act 1946, if a worker subject to an REA was aggrieved, he or she could simply complain to NERA. The worker...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I echo the statement of my colleague. We are all pretty shattered by the latest figures from the CSO, issued this morning, which show the unemployment rate has risen to 14.9%, while emigration continues unabated. A really staggering statistic is that more than half, or approximately half, of those unemployed have been unemployed for 12 months or more. My information suggests that almost...

Written Answers — Sporting Organisations: Sporting Organisations (3 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has undertaken any review of the remuneration of personnel within major sporting organisations who receive State funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32141/12]

Written Answers — Enterprise Support Services: Enterprise Support Services (3 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 300: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of Enterprise Ireland supported job announcements each week since the start of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31722/12]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (3 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 301: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of Industrial Development Agency supported job announcements each week since the start of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31727/12]

Written Answers — Job Protection: Job Protection (3 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 681: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current proposals for the deployment of a credit card format driving licence will remove the need for a printed photo ID and thus have a massive impact on the 4,000 people employed in the private photo ID industry; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in France...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Willie O'Dea: In my Second Stage speech, I welcomed the Bill and outlined why my party strongly supported it. It is about foreign direct investment and keeping the country as attractive as possible for such investment on which my region, in particular, is heavily dependent. From that point of view, I support the general purpose of this Bill. I regret that the Government did not take the opportunity to...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: "(2) In this Act "Act of 1999" means the Companies (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1999.". The Minister of State will be aware that SMEs are not compelled - and are exempt from the requirements - to have an audit if they have a turnover of €8.8 million per annum or less, and if they are employing fewer than 50...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Perhaps the Minister would repeat the last point he made.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I think it was Oscar Wilde who once said that when trying to make excuses for not doing something one excuse is more believable than several. The Minister of State has given several excuses for not accepting these amendments, the first of which is that this is the wrong legislation in which to make this change, which is nonsense. The Investment Intermediaries Act is not before the House....

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The position of investment intermediaries has worsened considerably. Many of these white collar jobs have been lost since 2009 and people are under greater pressure now than they were then. The Department of Finance and the Central Bank were willing to change in 2009 but the Minister of State expects us to believe this is no longer the case. We are also expected to swallow the canard that...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister of State stated that it will be appropriate to deal with this in the next companies Bill. This is a companies Bill but it is not appropriate to deal with it in this legislation. In the meantime these businesses are under pressure and jobs are being threatened and lost. However, we must wait for the next companies Bill, whenever that will be, and I do not see the logic in this...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Willie O'Dea: You have been in government for the past 18 months.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Willie O'Dea: When?

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Willie O'Dea: It does not cover investments.