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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission Establishment (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he and his officials considered the independent report by a person (details supplied) entitled Low Pay: The Nation's Challenge and the Resolution Foundation Review of the Future of the National Minimum Wage: The Final Report, before concluding the draft heads of the low pay commission legislation. [12099/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 30. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures within the Action Plans for Jobs 2015 that will address the high levels of part-time and casual work which are now embedded in the structure of the labour market. [12095/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Grocery Industry Competition (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the final regulations for the grocery goods sector, as provided for under the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014, will be signed into law; and if his attention has been drawn to any current practices by large retailers that are unduly and unfairly burdening their suppliers. [12096/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Retail Sector (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to act on the recommendations of the recent Retail Excellence Ireland and Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association report on building the all-island retail industry, North and South. [12098/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 117. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out the definition for commencement of employment under the Unfair Dismissals Acts; if he will provide the information that an employer must when offering a subsequent contract, to the original temporary contract of employment, to an existing employee under the Terms of Employment (Information) Act; and under this same...

European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This is connected to the European semesterisation, which is connected to the budget.

European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Perhaps that can be extended because I have been needlessly interrupted by the Acting Chairman. The European Council called on the EU to make every effort to successfully conclude TTIP negotiations in 2015. The rush to complete this agreement is unprecedented. A massive tide of popular opinion is turning against TTIP across Europe. Is that why the European Council called for the EU to...

European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: From reading the conclusions of this European Council meeting it is welcome that Europe is both promoting the use of renewable energy among member states while also respecting member states who choose to use a different energy mix within the state that is tailored to their own needs. The White Paper on Energy Policy in Ireland, which is currently being drafted, will hopefully show that while...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as ucht a chur i láthair. We have heard the Minister state a number of times that he is seeking to take politics out of the setting of the low pay commission. Given that poverty, inequality and low wages are currently entrenched in the economy, many would say that the Labour Party has been successful in taking politics out of its time in government....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: -----in the short term. He also said it is to look at general issues associated with low pay. Again, a Minister with a political direction should be giving direction to these individuals with regard to exactly what they should be examining. The problem I have is that it appears we are inventing a typewriter here, while Britain is already looking at inventing an iPad. What I mean is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State has made a number of points. It is not that we are cynical with regard to the low pay commission. We are ambitious for it but we do not believe there is the necessary level of ambition in terms of an economy dealing with entrenched poverty. In Britain, and this was the case I put to the Minister of State, they have started to appraise the effectiveness of their low...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: On the zero hour contracts issue, we have the same policy in the North as we have in the South. Will the Minister of State ask the Central Statistics Office to record the number of zero hour contracts in function in the National Quarterly Household Survey because we could then have a greater insight into zero hour contracts and their impact in the economy? The questions remain. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The CSO collects that information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis na toscairí as ucht a gcuid cur i láthair. Bhí siad an-suimiúil ar fad. How entrenched is low pay? Sometimes, people think we have always had low pay and the poor and things are really no different in this generation than they were in previous generations. Is 2015 radically different from ten or 20 years ago with regard to income inequality?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank the delegates for their presentations. Before their presentations, we heard presentations by employee representatives. Many of them were decent individuals who explained very difficult situations for employees. Our job is to square the circle. I do not know who the squares and circles are here, and I will not say. It is a major and difficult challenge for the Oireachtas. A...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is only one representative organisation in favour of zero-hour contracts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: ISME is not against them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: We will have that discussion. I just wanted to get a brief understanding of where the representative groups stand on the issue. Mr. Murphy's member organisations are experiencing a whole ecosystem of costs, and wages are one aspect. I always feel wages are the last place we should seek cost reductions. Where do wages stand in his priority of costs? Would parity of USC for self-employed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The last question I have is to Ms Maeve McElwee. The 4.7% of the working population who are on the minimum wage is a cost element regarding business. But the 4.7% of the population who are on the very top wages is equally a cost. Given that both costs should be a challenge equally to the people you represent, what should be done with the wages at the top, the 4.7%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Ireland has a very steep incomes gradient. A steep incomes gradient is not necessarily good for a cohesive society. We are here to focus on wages as a cost of doing business. The committee is focussing on the 4.7% at the bottom. I am just wondering why there is no attention given to the 4.7% at the top.