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- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: I was very privileged. An awful lot of the students used go to America, and they lived on tips. In France, if one neglects to give a tip, one will find a waiter or waitress coming after you saying, "Service, service, service." They will not let one away with it. One is compelled to give a tip. I will tell the Minister something, and it might be a practical suggestion to my colleagues in...
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: The people in the hospitality industry work unsocial hours, until 11 p.m., midnight, etc., and they should get their just reward for this. I would also say, and perhaps I suggested this earlier, it is the intention of the person giving the tip that it goes to the employee to say, "Thank you for your service and thank you for your behaviour." It is appalling that restaurants, on top of the...
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: I do not. I would never say anything that was not true.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: No, I believe it.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: I have obviously hit home. One can always tell.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: I never tell an untruth.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: I do not think so.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: Anyway, it is a political view and it is one to which I am entitled. I strongly support this legislation. I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for his indulgence. Turning briefly to the subject of the amendment, this is a matter of definition. The definition of "employee" was left out of the Bill and it is an appropriate amendment. It is no harm in a Bill, when one is dealing with the rights...
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: The Standing Orders of the Seanad, too, need to be changed.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: It is a related question.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: Exactly.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: Some customers use a credit card and then give cash.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: There was no Ms Scrooge. He was a bachelor.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: My sister-in-law?
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: Everybody did.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: Exactly.
- Seanad: Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister to the House with some reservation because I must say it was most unwise to let us have these complex amendments late on Monday night and then, after a two-year gap, try to stuff this through in five hours. I made the point this morning on the Order of Business that it is the same two or three people speaking on every Bill here and it is abusing us to try to stick us...
- Seanad: Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: By one vote but a victory is a victory as the Minister knows.
- Seanad: Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: Yes, I was trying to think of that phrase but I could not quite find it. I agree wholeheartedly with my distinguished colleague, Senator Bacik, that there is a distinct difference between information on the one hand and contact on the other. They are two separate issues. A little later, I will put something on the record from one of the adoptees who makes this point very clearly....
- Seanad: Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2019)
David Norris: I am glad to hear that. Will the Minister be meeting the alliance to discuss these amendments?