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Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: Perhaps it might be teased out this morning, but it will reflect how I vote now. How do the Deputies propose that the amendment be implemented? Would there be a notice on the notice board? How would I prove that an employee saw it? How would it work in practical terms? If an employee did not see the notice offering extra hours, how would it be enforced?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: I am asking how it would be enforced.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: How would they have to offer it? Would it be something as ridiculous as putting it on the notice board? Is it going to be something as ridiculous as sticking it up on the notice board? Are we going to imply that employers have to write to all staff-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: How are we going to ensure they do it?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move amendment No. 37: In page 14, to delete lines 24 to 27 and substitute the following: A 1 hour 7 hours B 8 hours 15 hours C 16 hours 24 hours D 25 hours 34 hours E 35 hours and over Deputies will recall that the width of the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: I welcome Deputy O'Dea's statement that he recognises that multiple and narrow bands of hours place an administrative burden on businesses because that is what this is going to do. We were cognisant of all the points that were raised on Second Stage, on which we reflected and in respect of which we have moved. The band of hours provides the security for which people are looking but also the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: We do not accept that this loophole exists and neither do the industry partners with whom we engage.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: The original document of congress, which still stands, had a banded hours agreement in which band A was the statutory minimum up to ten hours, band B was 11 to 20 hours, C was 21 to 30, D was 31 to 39 and E was 40. To put the Deputy at ease, there is no loophole.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: Are we on a different section?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: That is what I am on but what is the Deputy speaking to?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: I do not think it is the right one.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: Would the Chairman like me to take them together?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Chairman. The anti-penalisation provisions that previously existed in the Organisation of Working Time Act were drafted in 1997. The Bill uses the language from the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012 to reinforce the provision. It is the strongest anti-penalisation provision in employment law in this jurisdiction. Taken together, amendments Nos. 44 and...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: With regard to amendments Nos. 46 and 47, the penalisation provisions in the legislation provide that where an employee makes a complaint arising from any penalty against them, it shall be presumed until the contrary is proven that the employee concerned acted and acts reasonably and in good faith when making a complaint. That is a strong protection for the employee and it is then a matter...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move amendment No. 49: In page 15, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “PART 4 AMENDMENT OF NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE ACT 2000 Amendment of National Minimum Wage Act 2000 17. The National Minimum Wage Act 2000 is amended— (a) by the substitution of the following section for section 14: “14. Subject to sections 15, 17, 18 and 41, an employee...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move amendment No. 50: In page 5, line 12, after “Organisation of Working Time Act 1997;” to insert “to amend the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977; to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000;”. This is a technical amendment to alter the Long Title to the Bill to include the amendments to the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 and the National Minimum Wage Act 2000.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: It will be taken as soon as possible. I thank the Chairman and my colleagues.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Marriage Registrations (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: Legislation governing marriages is found in Part 6 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 (as amended). Section 46 of that Act requires that the parties to the intended marriage give to a registrar three months’ notice of their intention to marry, unless an exemption has been granted by the courts under section 47. Applications for an exemption may be made to either: (i) the Circuit...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. I confirm that my department received an application for CA from the person concerned on the 24 April 2018. The application is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Data (17 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 235 and 236 together. Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, my Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. The Government has provided over €36 million for exceptional and urgent payments in...