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Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: However, I have made a clear and inarguable case to the Minister. The Minister either has the intention of expanding this or at least is making provision that he can expand this. It is a very bad practice that is opposed by the trade unions. Moreover, it is totally ineffective because the employers already are indemnified against it and I can discern no reason whatever for it. This is one...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: If I may intervene in advance of a vote, could I ask the Minister, in order to avoid a division, to give an undertaking to examine the possibility of putting into legislation the single specific case he instanced in the first place and to forget about all the hypothetical ones? They can be dealt with later. Were the Minister to narrow the provision to the specific case he has in mind, the...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: I very much doubt that.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: It is not legally enforceable.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: To avoid a vote, why does the Minister not bring them forward in the legislation?

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: I apologise but I have not finished. While the Minister can talk about bringing a regulation to the House, that still leaves in force the general power in the legislation to introduce further regulations. This is not acceptable. The Minister has reverted to his original point and is kind of shifting from point to point. He now states again that it is for the single instance. If that is...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: I move amendment No. 111: In page 55, after line 42, to insert the following: "(e) the Chairman of the Labour Court for the purposes of having any particular case dealt with may- (i)appoint a person or persons to be a temporary member of the Labour Court, (ii) appoint a person or persons to be a temporary Deputy Chairman of the Labour Court, (iii) the Minister shall from time to time...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: No, except to say that I completely agree with the amendment.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: On Government amendment No. 120, in regard to a notice or other document that is required to be served on a person is it sufficient, for example, just to send it by electronic means? There are many people who do not have computers, including myself.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: I thank the Minister.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: We are under the instructions of the House.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: The Chair is under the instructions of the House to report progress.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: Report progress.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: We have to live by the rules of the House.

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

David Norris: When are we resuming?

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Norris: I move amendment No. 14: In page 14, line 13, to delete “address;” where it secondly occurs and substitute the following:“address. For the avoidance of doubt, the address given on any letter or other document to the complainant/employee by a respondent/employer shall also be deemed to be an address at which the person ordinarily resides as shall any address specified...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Norris: The Minister has said quite clearly and categorically that two of these amendments are already provided for. We will have to mull that over, take advice and see the extent to which this is a complete reflection. I am sure the Minister has put this statement on the record of the House in good faith, and it may very well be true. However, there are certain circumstances that cannot be...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Norris: I would like to make a comment first before I withdraw it. Does the Minister accept that there is a situation of confusion out there and that a certain number of complaints are dismissed or held up because of uncertainty regarding the legal entity that constitutes the employer?

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Norris: This would be another way of addressing it. I feel particularly strongly about this issue. The Minister accepts that there is an objective situation out there. Despite the fact that the number of cases might be small, the injustice to those cases still remains and it seems that it is up to us to address that. It seems absurd not to require in law that an employer should identify itself...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Feb 2015)

David Norris: I move amendment No. 24: In page 21, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following:“(10) The Chairman of the Labour Court may require any representative, of a complainant or respondent, for gain, to comply with any code of practice made by the Commission under subsection (1)(a) of this section."This concerns the direction as to the manner in which business should be conducted,...