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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (24 May 2017)

Mary Butler: 234. To ask the Minister for Health when the consultant post for the Waterford centre of excellence will be filled under the model of care for children and young persons with type one diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24917/17]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: The committee is in public session. The meeting has been convened to consider Committee Stage of the Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017, which was referred to the Select Committee by Order of the Dáil on 11 May 2017 and the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016, which was referred to the Select Committee by Order of the Dáil on 28 February 2017. I welcome the Minister for Jobs,...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: As the Bill has now completed Committee Stage, it is recommended that members submit Report Stage amendments to the Bills Office without delay as the Report Stage may be taken at short notice.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Message to Dáil (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has completed its consideration of the Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 and has made no amendments thereto.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad] [Private Members']: Committee Stage (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: We are now in public session. We will now commence Committee Stage of the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016. There are no amendments. It is intended to conclude Committee Stage today. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad] [Private Members']: Committee Stage (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: As the Bill has now completed Committee Stage it is recommended that members submit Report Stage amendments to the Bills Office without delay as the Report Stage may be taken at short notice.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad] [Private Members']: Committee Stage (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I thank the Minister. That concludes today's select committee meeting. I thank Deputy Alan Kelly, the Minister, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor and her officials for attending today's meeting. I remind members that as Report Stage may be ordered at short notice, it is recommended that Report Stage amendments, if any, be submitted to the Bills Office as soon as possible.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Message to Dáil (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has completed its consideration of the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 and has made no amendments thereto.

Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Page 64 of the programme for Government refers to driving down costs to provide new treatments, drugs, etc. and asserts that the Government will examine opportunities to leverage purchasing power. As the Taoiseach may be aware, time is running out for the 21 alpha-1 patients who are receiving Respreeza on a compassionate basis from CSL Behring. The patients, some of whom started the trial...

Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I thank the Taoiseach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I remind members, visitors and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile phones are switched off or left in flight mode for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even when left in silent mode. I welcome Dr. Michelle O'Sullivan, lecturer in industrial relations, Dr. Juliet McMahon, lecturer in industrial relations and human resource...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: We will circulate them to the members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I thank Dr. O'Sullivan. We will start with some questions. Who would like to begin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Do you envisage any unintended consequences from the Bill as currently drafted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: If anybody else wishes to contribute, they are more than welcome to do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Part 3 of the Bill, on the provision of banded hour contracts, states: "A worker, or his or her trade union or a representative acting on his or her behalf, shall be entitled after a period of no less than 6 months of continuous employment with his or her employer, to request in writing of his or her employer to be moved to an increased weekly band of hours." There has been quite a lot of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Would Dr. O'Sullivan still recommend six months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Pregnancy is an issue Dr. O'Sullivan mentioned, which has not come up in our past five meetings. Did women feel more unfairly treated by if-and-when and zero-hour contracts if they were pregnant or did they get what they were entitled to? Did the witnesses delve into that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I thank the witnesses for coming here today to engage with the committee and for all their work to date on zero-hour contracts. One thing they will notice from this committee is that we are all very much aware that there is an issue here. We have done much work trying to tease out exactly where the issues are, so we appreciate the witnesses coming in today. We will now suspend the meeting...