Kathryn Reilly (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 3, lines 15 and 16, to delete "National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Act 2015"and substitute "Low Pay Commission Act 2015".

I apologise on behalf of my colleague, Senator David Cullinane, who cannot be present to take the legislation. I am filling in for him. I am aware that the Minister of State has engaged with him on this issue, especially on Second Stage. As the Senator is our spokesperson on workers' rights, he has a great interest in this legislation, but, unfortunately, he is engaged in a series of meetings on this issue.

Amendment No. 1 is straightforward. It merely seeks to change the Title of the legislation to reflect the fact that if the Government was serious about dealing with the issue of law pay and in-work poverty, addressing the minimum wage is not enough. The issue concerns the Low Pay Commission dealing with some of the statistics which show Ireland is a low wage economy in comparison with other 15 European Union countries.