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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2017-06-27/9/
27 Jun 2017 - National Minimum Wage (Removal of Sub-minimum Rates of Pay) Bill 2017: First Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-05-29/10/
29 May 2018 - National Minimum Wage (Removal of Sub-minimum Rates of Pay) Bill 2017: Second Stage
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-12-02/66/
2 Dec 2010 - rates under the National Minimum Wage Act, 2000 by virtue of them being under the age of 18 or undergoing...minimum wage of €8.65 per hour as of the second quarter of 2010....The available data does not distinguish between those on the adult minimum wage and those on sub-minimum...As the sub-minimum hourly rates are calculated as a percentage of the national minimum hourly rate of...pay, any reduction in the rate will apply pro rata to the sub-minimum rates.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2017-06-27/9/
27 Jun 2017 - Senator Paul Gavan I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the...National Minimum Wage Act 2000 to end sub-minimum rates of pay for those who have attained the age of
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-02-24/26/
24 Feb 2005 - for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in accordance with the National Minimum Wage Act 2000, to apply...The national minimum wage legislation, allows a three-month period for my consideration of the Labour...The Labour Court did not recommend any changes to the structure of the sub-minimum rates of the minimum...on the sub-minimum rates as these are expressed in legislation as percentage rates of the national minimum...Therefore, if an increase to the minimum wage should become effective from 1 May, the sub-minimum rates
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-06-22/157/
22 Jun 2004 - Fahey) Sub-minimum rates of the national minimum wage apply where an employee is: under age 18; or in...All employees under the age of 18 are entitled to 70% of the national minimum wage....that young employees are not exploited and ensuring that the rate of pay does not encourage students...The National Minimum Wage Commission recommended that sub-minimum rates should also apply to employees...The National Minimum Wage Act does not apply to statutory apprentices within the meaning of or under
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-05-29/10/
29 May 2018 - Its aim is to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 and end sub-minimum rates of pay for those who...We introduced a National Minimum Wage Act in 2000 that gave employees a legal entitlement to a minimum...During our time in office we progressively increased the national minimum wage rate six times....The national minimum wage increase under Fianna Fáil was 37% from 2000 to 2011, far outstripping inflation...employment a lower wage and compare them with someone who is experienced and on the minimum wage is
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-05-29/10/
29 May 2018 - If enacted, it will end sub-minimum rates of pay for workers over the age of 16 unless the worker is...The Bill is very short, containing just two amendments to the principal National Minimum Wage Act....Our Bill would amend that section to ensure that a worker would be entitled to the national minimum wage...We believe that under current Irish equality legislation, these sub-minimum rates of pay constitute age...national minimum wage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-05-04/197/
4 May 2005 - Killeen) The National Minimum Wage Act came into effect in April 2000....Government to advise on the introduction of a national minimum wage....wage which felt that a reduced rate for those under 18 raised important issues for national education...on this group — a possible increase in the supply of such workers attracted by the minimum wage rate...The sub-minimum rate for those under 18 was therefore recommended by the national minimum wage commission
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-05-29/10/
29 May 2018 - This provision reflects unfortunately on the ideology of her party, because it implies that the national...minimum wage is fine for an experienced worker....As someone who worked as a trade unionist for ten years I do not believe it is fine to find minimum wage...That system is propped up by the sub-minimum rates of pay....recognition that something should be done about that this evening, and I urge Members present to support the Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-11-15/202/
15 Nov 2011 - Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Deputy Richard Bruton) The National Minimum Wage Act,...The national minimum hourly rate for an experienced adult worker was increased to €8.65 per hour with...Sub-minimum rates of between 70% and 90% of the National Minimum Wage apply where an employee is: Under...rates of pay that are higher than the National Minimum Wage....Notwithstanding the minimum rates established by legislation, more beneficial rates of pay can be agreed
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-11-28/249/
28 Nov 2006 - Killeen) The current national minimum wage is €7.65 per hour....to Government on a new minimum wage rate to be effective from 1 January, 2007....Sub-minimum rates of the National Minimum Wage apply where an employee is: Under age 18; or In the...are entitled to 70% of the national minimum wage....that young employees are not exploited and ensuring that the rate of pay does not encourage students
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-10-07/179/
7 Oct 2010 - minimum wage of €8.65 per hour as of the first quarter of 2010....The available data does not distinguish between those on the adult minimum wage and those on sub-minimum...Section 41 of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 to date....The inability to pay mechanism under the National Minimum Wage Act was designed to ensure a balance between...mechanism in EROs and REAs, as these are in sectors with generally higher rates than the national minimum
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-05-23/211/
23 May 2006 - Killeen) The National Minimum Wage was introduced on 1 April 2000....The ESRI has undertaken minimum wage surveys on behalf of the Department on three occasions since then...Percentage of employees on *the minimum wage (in private sector, non-agricultural firms) 2001 4.3%...on minimum wage 2002 4.5% on minimum wage 2005/06 5.2% on minimum wage *This includes...those on the experienced adult rate and those on the sub-minimum rates.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-10-27/127/
27 Oct 2004 - Subminimum rates of the national minimum wage apply where an employee is under age 18 or in the first...Employees under the age of 18 are entitled to 70% of the national minimum wage....The national minimum wage commission recommended that subminimum rates should also apply to employees...There are no plans to amend the national minimum wage legislation to abolish the sub-minimum rates....wage to €8 per hour is not available, an assessment, in accordance with the national minimum wage legislation
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-01-31/693/
31 Jan 2007 - O’Donoghue) There are no staff in my Department currently earning the national minimum wage or less...than the national minimum wage (or the sub-minimum wage as defined by Sections 15 and 16 of the National...minimum wage or less than the national minimum wage (or the sub-minimum wage as defined by Sections...15 and 16 of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000)....minimum wage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-06-13/36/
13 Jun 2000 - information available to the Department as to the number of employees receiving the training-related sub-minimum...pay rates provided for in the National Minimum Wage Act.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-05-29/10/
29 May 2018 - Senator Gerald Nash I am pleased to support this Bill....The principle of a legal minimum rate of pay is a critical one and something that must be protected....I was interested to hear Senator Davitt’s remarks regarding Fianna Fáil’s record on the national minimum...wage....minimum wage rate.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-01-31/1130/
31 Jan 2007 - minimum wage, and there are no staff earning just one euro above the current national minimum wage....earning less than the national minimum wage, including those earning the sub-minimum wage as defined...by Sections 15 and 16 of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 None The number of staff in his...the sub-minimum wage as defined by Sections 15 and 16 of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 None...minimum wage, including those earning the sub-minimum wage as defined by Sections 15 and 16 of the National
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-05-29/10/
29 May 2018 - rates of pay under the National Minimum Wage Act....Under the provisions of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Act 2015, when it was established...minimum wage and sub-minima rates....minimum wage, just over half included sub-minima rates for younger people....that the trainee rates should be abolished and that the permitted sub-minimum rates of the national
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-01-20/11/
20 Jan 2016 - Deputy Gerald Nash The Low Pay Commission was established last year through the National Minimum Wage...Its remit is to make recommendations to me regarding the national minimum hourly rate of pay, ensuring...In this context and in order to obtain a better understanding of the impact of the national minimum wage...on younger people, I requested the commission to examine the appropriateness of the sub minima rates...Given the preponderance of women on the national minimum wage, as highlighted in the commission’s report
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-01-31/322/
31 Jan 2007 - Cowen) The minimum starting rates of pay in my Department are €389.76 per week, for Services Officers...These rates are in excess of the National Minimum wage, including the addition of one euro per hour....the national minimum wage, or at a rate of not more than one euro per hour in excess of the national...staff serving in those agencies earning the national minimum wage, less than the national minimum wage..., or a rate of not more than one euro per hour in excess of the national minimum wage.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-05-29/10/
29 May 2018 - It has been consistent Sinn Féin policy for some time to eliminate sub-minimum rates of pay....I recognise the fact that the national minimum wage was brought in initially by Fianna Fáil....minimum wage....When one reflects that the living wage is some €2 ahead of the national minimum wage the difficulty becomes...minimum wage, even though it is recognised that the national minimum wage is some €2 below a living
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-05-29/10/
29 May 2018 - of the national minimum wage by €1 per hour....of the national minimum wage and that one must go through the Low Pay Commission first and examine the...minimum wage....minimum wage should be disadvantaged in the way that the National Minimum Wage Act, as currently constructed...as provided for in the National Minimum Wage Act 2000?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-11-21/86/
21 Nov 2002 - Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Ms Harney) The national minimum wage was...At its introduction, the national minimum hourly rate of pay was set at £4.40, €5.59, per hour, which...rate of pay in respect of the employee's working hours in any pay reference period, unless a sub-minimum...rate of the national minimum hourly rate of pay applies in respect of that employee....wage: Table 1 Rates effective from 1 April, 2000
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-10-23/19/
23 Oct 2019 - Deputy Regina Doherty In developing its recommendation on the national minimum wage the Low Pay Commission...of the national minimum wage changes on levels of employment, the cost of living and national competitiveness...Accordingly, although the Low Pay Commission recommended an increase in the national minimum wage of...I intend, therefore, to make provision in the Social Welfare Bill to declare the national minimum wage...to ensure that, wherever it can be afforded, employers will pay a rate of pay that provides an income
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-05-13/43/
13 May 2004 - Fahey) The national minimum wage can only be increased following a recommendation contained in a national...minimum hourly rate of pay, not earlier than 12 months after the Minister last declared a national minimum...hourly rate of pay....minimum wage be increased to €7....I accepted this recommendation and signed an order which gave effect to this rate from 1 February 2004
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-12-02/30/
2 Dec 2010 - Deputy Willie Penrose Is the raison d’être of this minimum wage cut to set off a cycle of depressing...None of them said that the national minimum wage was of paramount importance, although they did refer...Section 41 of the National Minimum Wage Act provides that companies which are unable, or find it difficult..., to pay the minimum wage can apply to the Labour Court....Legislation will be required in the context of setting the minimum wage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-10-05/75/
5 Oct 1999 - It is being drafted following consideration of the report of the national minimum wage commission, inter-departmental...not less than the national minimum hourly wage....I will be proposing a sub-minimum rate for employees under the age of 18, at 70 per cent of the full...In line with the recommendation of the national minimum wage commission I will also be proposing that...a sub-minimum rate will apply to trainees undergoing a prescribed course of study or training.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-02-09/17/
9 Feb 2000 - Kitt The Tánaiste recently published the National Minimum Wage Bill, 2000, which delivers on the Government's...commitment to introduce a national minimum hourly rate of pay....rate of the national minimum hourly rate of pay at £4.40 from 1 April 2000....Section 12 of the National Minimum Wage Bill, 2000, permits the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment...to review the national minimum hourly rate of pay.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-03-29/42/
29 Mar 2011 - The national minimum wage was reduced with effect from the 1st February 2011 by order made pursuant to...minimum hourly rate of pay of €7.65....The commitment to reverse the recent cut in the national minimum wage will require primary legislation...Committee system rather than the national minimum wage....wages and conditions overlaps with that of the statutory national minimum wage system.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-09-27/634/
27 Sep 2006 - Killeen) The minimum rates of pay and employment conditions of workers employed in the hotel and restaurant...Regulation Orders made pursuant to the provisions of the Industrial Relations Acts 1946 to 2004 or the National...Minimum Wage Act, 2000....From the details supplied by the Deputy it would appear that the statutory minimum rates of pay for the...Labour Inspectors are empowered to seek compliance with payment of the statutory minimum rates of pay
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-02-10/12/
10 Feb 2004 - Since the introduction of the national minimum wage in April 2000, inspectors have undertaken inspections...under the National Minimum Wage Act 2000, with reported compliance and sanctions levels as follows....In 2001 there was one conviction under the National Minimum Wage Act that concerned a failure to keep...Two of these were in respect of a failure to pay the correct wage rate — arrears were paid in both cases...The rates of pay for workers in these sectors are at least the equivalent of the applicable national
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-10-07/179/
7 Oct 2010 - rates of pay which are applicable to workers under the age of 18 and to workers in training positions...Central Statistics Office, indicate that there were approximately 47,000 employees paid at or below the national...minimum wage of €8.65 per hour as of the first quarter of 2010....The available data does not distinguish between those on the adult minimum wage and those on sub-minimum...Employee Minimum Hourly Rate of Pay Under age 18 €6.06 per working hour In a course
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-05-07/29/
7 May 2015 - standards, and the House will recall that this Government restored the national minimum wage to €8.65...22 member states that have a national minimum wage....Approximately 70,000 employees are on the national minimum wage....I assure Deputy Maloney that if an employer is found to be in breach of the National Minimum Wage Act...through reviews of the national minimum wage and pay restoration while also tackling the increased burden
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-01-31/760/
31 Jan 2007 - Brennan) There are currently no staff in my Department and its Agencies who are earning the national...minimum wage, or earning not more than €1 per hour more than the minimum wage....There are currently no staff in my Department and its Agencies who are earning the sub-minimum wage,...as defined by Sections 15 and 16 of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-01-19/81/
19 Jan 2011 - State at the Department of Enterprise; Trade and Innovation (Deputy Dara Calleary) Section 41 of the National...Minimum Wage Act 2000 makes provision for an employer to apply to the Labour Court for a once-off time...limited exemption from the requirement to pay the minimum rate....Ireland, published on 1 December 2010, includes a commitment to enlarge the scope of the inability pay...provision in the National Minimum Wage Act 2000, permitting firms to invoke this clause more than once
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-01-31/720/
31 Jan 2007 - Martin) All staff currently employed by my Department earn above the national minimum wage....wage....One agency of my Department has 1 student on work experience who earns the minimum wage and employs between...minimum wage or earning the sub-minimum wage as defined by Sections 15 and 16 of the National Minimum...minimum wage legislation.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-02-08/148/
8 Feb 2006 - Killeen) The national minimum wage legislation provides for a monetary deduction to be made from the...statutory minimum pay of an employee if the employee is provided with board and-or lodgings as follows...The inclusion of this provision in the national minimum wage legislation was recommended by the inter-departmental...group on implementation of a national minimum wage....I have no plans to remove these provisions from the minimum wage legislation.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-01-24/13/
24 Jan 2018 - Senator Ray Butler Since 1 January 2018, under the National Minimum Wage Order 2017, the national minimum...rate of the national minimum wage....paid lower rates called sub-minimum rates....The National Minimum Wage Act also provides sub-minimum rates which apply to employees who are aged over...An exemption may only be sought from paying the full rate of the national minimum wage, not for the cases
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-11-15/57/
15 Nov 2006 - Minimum Wage and other statutory minimum wage inspections by the Labour Inspectorate....The Deputy should be aware that statutory minimum rates of pay for certain sectors, for example Construction...Minimum Wage compliance....I can assure the Deputy that the inspection of compliance with the National Minimum Wage Act, 2000 and...with other statutory instruments and agreements which provide for minimum rates of pay is a priority
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-11-15/97/
15 Nov 2006 - to Government by 1 September, 2006 on a new minimum wage rate to be effective from 1 January, 2007....minimum wage and make a recommendation to me on the matter....In accordance with the terms of the National Minimum Wage Act, 2000, the Court is currently engaging...wage, it will recommend the rate agreed....The Act requires that, before declaring a new minimum wage rate, I must take into account the impact
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-04-20/60/
20 Apr 2005 - "agreed to request the Labour Court to review the National Minimum Wage and to make a recommendation...to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in accordance with the National Minimum Wage Act...In February last the Labour Court recommended that the minimum wage should be increased to €7.65 with...In its assessment, the ESRI concludes that the increase in the minimum wage to €7.65 can be implemented...On the issue of consumer prices, the ESRI has calculated that the increase in the minimum wage to €7.65
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-10-16/11/
16 Oct 2014 - The national minimum wage in Ireland is considered to be relatively high by international standards....21 EU member states that have a national minimum wage....Pay rates negotiated in the JLC fora have tended to be above the national minimum wage and the JLCs operate...It is voluntary and, as such, does not prevent UK employers paying the national minimum wage rate of...In addition to Ireland's national minimum wage, JLC and REA structures, we have a system of supports
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-01-19/76/
19 Jan 2011 - minimum wage to €7.65 was signed by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation on 18 January....The adjustment of the national minimum wage to a rate more suited to current economic circumstances and...I should also point out that even after the reduction to €7.65 per hour, the new rate of Ireland's national...minimum hourly wage will remain in the top tier of minimum wage rates set by European Union Member States...and will be about 12% higher than the equivalent minimum hourly rate applicable in the United Kingdom
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-01-19/81/
19 Jan 2010 - related developments in Employment Regulation Orders, Registered Employment Agreements and Social Welfare rates..., so as to ensure that the National Minimum Wage, at its current rate, is not having an adverse effect...The guiding principles that inform adjustments to the level of National Minimum Wage under the provisions...of the National Minimum Wage Act, 2000, require account to be taken of the likely impact of any proposed...change on employment, unemployment, overall economic conditions and national competitiveness.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-31/58/
31 May 2001 - Kitt) I assume that the Deputy is referring to the national minimum wage for employees....The National Minimum Wage Act, 2000 came into force on 1 April 2000 and the national minimum hourly rate...of pay was set at £4.40....From 1 July 2001 this rate is set to increase to £4.70.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-06-26/271/
26 Jun 2007 - minimum wage shown under in a pay reference period....From 1 January, 2007 the national minimum hourly rate of pay is €8.30....From 1 July, 2007 the national minimum hourly rate of pay is €8.65....wage rates shown in the table below apply....the national minimum hourly rate of pay.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-12-15/198/
15 Dec 2010 - On that basis it is estimated that the national minimum wage may affect the wages of all those within...a range of 1.5 times the national minimum wage....The Forfás report found that the national minimum wage impacts on sectors in different ways — sectors...of amendments to the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 to give effect to the Government's decision to reduce...the National Minimum Wage to €7.65 per hour.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-11-04/31/
4 Nov 1999 - I published the final report of the interdepartmental group on implementation of a national minimum wage...The group set out detailed recommendations for the implementation of the national minimum wage....The ESRI study estimates that the impact of the introduction of the national minimum wage on the national...of the national minimum wage were to be set at above £4.40 per hour....The drafting of the national minimum wage Bill is at an advanced stage.
