Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As a Westmeath man to a Meath man, I would never suggest that. To be clear, there was certainly ambiguity in terms of that. I remember it at the time.

Here is the point. If we do not include cash tips in some way, it means there is no recourse in any circumstance in relation to cash tips. We can do better than that. I will not delay matters but I will give one example from Limerick. Actually, it is the example that kicked off this whole conversation where a number of staff explained to me how at the end of the night the employer would simply put his hand into the jar and say either that it had been a slow night or that he did most of the work that evening, and help himself to the cash tips. When one bears in mind that the Workplace Relations Commission makes decisions on the balance of probability, it would be quite possible in that case for the WRC to come to a decision that something wrong has happened here and these people deserve recompense. I would ask the Minister to revisit this when the Bill goes before the Dáil if possible. We should go further to try and ensure in circumstances such as that which none of us approve of - we all think it is horrific - that there is some course to see how we can deal with that.