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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I thank the Chair and other members for facilitating this Bill. We are in a position to move it through Committee Stage today, all going well. I am pleased to have the opportunity to discuss the Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill. The Bill provides for a payment from the State which will ensure that workers being made redundant will receive the same statutory redundancy payment as if...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: The Deputy will appreciate I am not going to go through every amendment that was disallowed. They are not related to this Bill but I appreciate why she wants to bring them up and have them discussed. I would be happy to return at a later stage to do that. When I was at the committee discussing the Duffy Cahill report, I outlined our issues with that report and also outlined the changes...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 4: In page 3, to delete lines 15 to 23 and substitute the following: “(b)whose entitlement to a lump sum payment under section 19 arises during the period beginning on 13 March 2020 and ending on 31 January 2025, and (c)who was laid off during the period beginning on 13 March 2020 and ending on 31 January 2022 due to the effect of measures...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: It is a fair question and observation. The difficulty we have is that the legislation must be linked to the restrictions. We are saying that lay-offs until 22 January 2022 are linked to Government restrictions. They are not lay-offs because of Covid-19, but because of interventions by the Government which restricted businesses' ability to operate at full capacity. Those restrictions have...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Not because of restrictions.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Absolutely. I refer to any restrictions that could result in people being laid off having been lifted by 22 January 2022. This legislation brings that date to 31 January 2022, well beyond it. I think we are being very fair in our assessment and that we have got this right legally. We made every effort to cover this situation. It was drafted in conjunction with everyone on this committee....

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 6: In page 4, line 15, to delete “emergency”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 7: In page 4, line 32, to delete “emergency”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 19: In page 4, line 36, after “Act” to insert “, other than section 4,”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 20: In page 4, line 38, after “Act” to insert “, other than section 4,”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 8: In page 4, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “Amendment of Act of 2021 4.(1) Section 11 of the Act of 2021 is amended by the substitution of “Schedule 1” for “Schedule 2”. (2) This section shall come into operation on the day on which section 11 of the Act of 2021 comes into operation. (3) In this section,...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 21: In page 3, line 7, to delete “30 September 2021;” and substitute “31 January 2022; to amend the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Act 2021;”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I understand the point the Deputy is making, but there is not the rationale to implement what she is suggesting. As she said herself, none of us here could figure out what date to use for the ending of this measure or how we could judge that aspect. The rationale the State has taken here is a pre-emptive one. We recognise that neither employees nor employers are responsible for this...

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (22 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 187, it be an instruction to the Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022, that the Committee has the power to make amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing provisions of the Bill, in relation to the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Act 2021 in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (22 Feb 2022)

Damien English: The Employment Permits Section of my Department inform me that General Employment Permit applications for the persons concerned (details supplied) were received on dates between 22 December 2021 and 20 January 2022. The Employment Permits Section of my Department are currently processing standard applications received on 27 September 2021. Applicants can keep track of Employment...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: International Agreements (22 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Ratification of ILO Convention C190, Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work, a matter of priority for Ireland, is being considered in the context of our standard approach to the ratification of international instruments. Ireland does not ratify international conventions until it has been determined that national law is in line with the provisions of the international...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (22 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Anyone considering starting, expanding or pivoting their business should in the first instance contact their Local Enterprise Office which acts as a ‘first stop shop’ for all available Government business supports. Businesses operating in the area of health and wellbeing, including those involved in physical therapy, are largely excluded from direct grant-aid support as the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (22 Feb 2022)

Damien English: On 28 April 2021, I announced my intention to issue an Order to give effect to a statutory recommendation of the Labour Court concerning minimum rates of remuneration and other terms and conditions in the Security Sector. The Order was to apply from 1 September 2021. As the Deputy may be aware, an ex-parte application to initiate legal proceedings challenging the underlying legislation in...