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Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2012)

Jim Walsh: Amendment No. 4 has been designed to bring additional clarity to the position on agency workers. Paragraph (c)(i) states "that employee and the agency worker do the same work under the same or similar conditions or each is interchangeable with the other in relation to the work". If they are interchangeable, this obviously means that they should possess equal skills. Senator Feargal Quinn...

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2012)

Jim Walsh: Yes. My concern is that this could lead to a situation where companies would be obliged to cease operations which would lead to agency workers and permanent employees going on the dole. If that proves to be the case, we will have done a bad day's work. That is the nub of the issue. Therefore, every precaution should be taken by means of provisions in the legislation to try to avoid the...

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2012)

Jim Walsh: They may be. To which amendment is the Leas-Chathaoirleach referring?

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2012)

Jim Walsh: No.

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2012)

Jim Walsh: I agree with Senator Feargal Quinn on this amendment. For as long as I have been a Member of this House, it has always been stated retrospective legislation does not comply with the Constitution. When the Minister spoke on Second Stage, he said he had received legal advice that the legislation was in order. However, the same happened in the case of the nursing home Bill and when it was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: Ba mhaith liom aontú leis an méid atá ráite ar son Mickey Doherty. Mickey was both an institution and a character. As Senator Mooney said, one underestimated him at one's peril. He portrayed a very understated ability, but his astuteness in politics was certainly noted in his local area. Reference has been made to his close friendship over the years with the former Taoiseach, Albert...

Seanad: Animal Diseases (29 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit go dtí an Teach. Will he outline the specific steps the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is taking to prevent the spread of the Schmallenberg virus, which is currently affecting livestock in parts of England and elsewhere in Europe, to Ireland? Since the 1990s the livestock industry has been affected by several diseases, including the...

Seanad: Animal Diseases (29 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive response. As the prevailing winds are in our favour, we will avoid the spread of the disease here. When tabling the motion I expected to hear that there was a spray available which would act as a repellant to midges and thus protect animals. However, as the Minister of State did not mention one, that may not be the case. Perhaps he might...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: I welcome this referendum, although it might be for a different reason from the reasons others might have. I welcome it because, if passed, it will enshrine a debt brake in our Constitution for this and future Governments. For too long we have seen expenditure of public moneys, and indeed promised expenditure by both Government and Opposition parties, with the sole purpose in many instances...

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: Why?

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: There are no social partners in other countries.

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: There are not.

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: Social partnership is no more.

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: We no longer have social partnership. It came to an end four years ago.

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: Yesterday morning, all of the Oireachtas Members in Wexford attended the local radio station to talk about the major challenge and the greatest crisis facing our country, which is undoubtedly the unemployment situation. Without covering all of the ground covered there, several items arose during the programme, including the issue of the VAT increase of 2%. We saw the effect of this during...

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: Our ultimate objective must be to find a solution for the people who are suffering day in and day out. Many of the generation experiencing the brunt of unemployment were never out of work before the downturn. For them, the social and psychological effects of the inability to secure employment are horrendous, before one even considers the economic impact. The least we can do is to ensure we...

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: In the public sector only.

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: Why not allow people negotiate at local level? I know individuals who were prepared to work for a particular employer - there was agreement between both parties - but they could not do so because the rate agreed between IBEC and the unions-----

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: Those people are on the dole now. They would be working if this difficulty had not arisen.

Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Feb 2012)

Jim Walsh: Just abandon the national agreements and allow them to-----