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

This is a necessary deterrent to respondents in employment rights proceedings who fail to pay awards of compensation as directed. The amendment provides that it will be an offence for a party so directed to pay compensation to a complainant but who fails to do so, except in circumstances where that respondent can demonstrate to the court that his or her failure to pay the compensation was due to inability to pay.