Ivana Bacik (Labour) | Oireachtas source

This amendment is related to amendments Nos. 6 and 7 and later amendment No. 9, in which we are seeking to establish a little more detail and clarity on how the legislation will take effect. I thank the Minister for confirming that there will be a centralised website. My question is in regard to who will administer that website. Under whose auspices or remit will it fall? Will it be Revenue, the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, or some other organisation? I ask the Minister to confirm what body or authority will administer the website.

I note that the Minister said that employers will be free to publish on their own websites. The purpose of amendment No. 8 is to make that clear. There is still a lack of certainty and clarity for employers and workers alike with regard to where the centralised data will be held and who will do the work to draw the comparisons that we have seen so powerfully made, for example on the British and Australian websites. In other jurisdictions, we have seen a new agency established to run the website and collate the data. I accept it is a massive task and that is why in our legislation we proposed to devolve that function to IHREC. We do not get a sense in this Bill of who the task is being devolved to. That is the key point.