Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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1493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all security and contract cleaning companies that have obtained contracts from her Department and agencies under the aegis of her Department under public procurement rules are paying the legal Employment Regulation Order (ERO) hourly rate to their security and contract cleaning employees; the steps she has taken to confirm full compliance with the ERO system; if she has cancelled contracts with companies that have been found to be in breach of the ERO system since 1 October 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35233/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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My Department’s cleaning and security suppliers wrote to the Department in 2015 to advise their implementation of the Employment Regulation Order (ERO) hourly rate increase from 1 October 2015.

Further Employment Regulation Order (ERO) hourly rate increases were implemented in 2016 (cleaning) and 2017 (security).

Additional increases are planned for later in 2017 (cleaning), for both cleaning and security in 2018, and for security in 2019.

No contracts have been cancelled.

In relation to the agencies under the aegis of my Department, the Pensions Authority has implemented the ERO hourly rate in respect to their cleaning contract since the 1st October 2015.

The Citizens Information Board has a contract in place for cleaning its head office. The cleaning company in question is paying the ERO hourly rate to its employees. Unfortunately, information is not readily available in relation to contract cleaning companies employed at other CIB premises around the country.