Seanad debates

Wednesday, 12 June 2019

National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages

 

10:30 am

Photo of Michael McDowellMichael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Government of the day took the then Deputy Alan Shatter's Private Members' legislation and ran with it. Why not run with this vehicle? What is so objectionable about it? Is the problem that the legislation comes on yellow paper and does not have the name of a Minister written on the back? If there is something wrong with the Bill, the Government should cure it. The Government cannot simply say it has its own proposal. That simply does not wash any more from a Government which has not acted on this matter for a long period and does not have a majority in any event to push through its own legislation or amendments. It is dependent on the goodwill and support of others to get any legislation through. I know the Minister does not like being portrayed as Ms Scrooge and I am not going to do that. However, I will ask the Government to get real and to look at the realities of the situation. This legislation would-----

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