Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Amendments Nos. 71 and 72 seek to include a provision in section 42(3) which would make it implicit that a practising barrister or solicitor or, where a complainant is under 18 years of age, his or her parent and guardian, in addition to an agency worker or any trade union of which the agency worker is a member, would be entitled to present a complaint to the director general under the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012. The proposed amendments are superfluous as it is well established in law that a complainant is entitled to instruct his or her legal representative or any other agent to act on his or her behalf. This would include, for example, submitting a complaint form on the claimant's instructions. Therefore, I do not propose to accept the amendments.