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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-03-08/94/
8 Mar 2000 -
Ahern): The National Minimum Wage Bill, 2000, is currently before the Oireachtas....When enacted it is intended that the national minimum wage will initially be set at an hourly rate of...£4.40 and will be implemented with effect from 1 April 2000.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-03-08/70/
8 Mar 2000 -
Mc Creevy): As the Deputy is aware the National Minimum Wage Bill, 2000 is currently before the Oireachtas...If passed into law, it is intended that the national minimum wage will initially be set at an hourly...rate of £4.40 and will be implemented with effect from 1 April 2000.
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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/2007-01-31/322/
31 Jan 2007 -
the national minimum wage, or at a rate of not more than one euro per hour in excess of the national...minimum wage....Minimum Wage Act 2000, all agencies under the aegis of my Department have confirmed that there are no...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: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-10-31/203/
31 Oct 2007 -
However, since the introduction of the national minimum wage legislation in April, 2000, three surveys...The studies estimated, inter alia, how many employees were on the minimum wage....The table below shows the number of employees on the minimum wage in private sector non agricultural...Year Number of employees on minimum wage % of employees earning minimum wage 2000/1 55,000
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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....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...Wage Act 2000....minimum wage legislation.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-02-01/166/
1 Feb 2005 -
part two of Sustaining Progress — Pay and the Workplace — agreed to ask 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 2000, to apply with effect from 1 May 2005....The Labour Court has undertaken a review of the national minimum wage in line with that commitment.
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Debate: Select Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2000-03-07/2/
7 Mar 2000 -
dispute the good sense of providing for the making of orders but, for example, if somewhere in the Bill...sectors" - a phrase contained in the Bill - one could draw the conclusion that we are either introducing...a national minimum wage or we are not....Representatives of the clothing industry might say to the Minister of the day that a minimum wage is...That kind of derogation would seem to defeat the character of a national minimum wage.
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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....This percentage was recommended by the National Minimum Wage Commission to strike a balance between ensuring...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: 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...section 11(1) of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000, as amended by section 13 of the Financial Emergency...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: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2000-03-30/8/
30 Mar 2000 -
Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the National...Minimum Wage Bill, 2000, on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the...Bill shall have been presented to her."
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-03-02/3/
2 Mar 2000 -
Broughan I welcome the fact that belatedly the National Minimum Wage Bill is before the House, but it...This party through its history has argued for a national minimum wage, but it is disgraceful to present...a Bill with a minimum wage of £4.40 which is barely 50% of average industrial earnings....minimum wage....minimum wage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-03-24/49/
24 Mar 1999 -
These developments clearly illustrate and underpin the Government's commitment to the introduction of a national...minimum wage in order to protect workers who are vulnerable and prone to be exploited while ensuring...I intend to have a statutory national minimum wage of £4.40 per hour in place by the target timescale...recommended by the National Minimum Wage Commission on the expiry of Partnership 2000 in April 2000.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-02-16/46/
16 Feb 1999 -
These developments clearly illustrate and underpin the Government's commitment to the introduction of a national...minimum wage in order to protect workers who are vulnerable and prone to be exploited while ensuring...I intend to have a statutory national minimum wage of £4.40 per hour in place by the target timescale...recommended by the National Minimum Wage Commission on the expiry of Partnership 2000, beginning in...April 2000.
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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...I intend to introduce the national minimum wage from 1 April 2000 at £4.40 per hour and I have no plans...The drafting of the national minimum wage Bill is at an advanced stage.
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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....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/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
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Debate: Select Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2000-03-07/2/
7 Mar 2000 -
Chairman Today's meeting marks the commencement of the Committee Stage debate on the National Minimum...Wage Bill, 2000.
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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...Central Statistics Office, indicate that there were approximately 52,000 employees paid at or below the national...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
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2000-03-29/5/
29 Mar 2000 -
I am pleased to be the first Minister to introduce a National Minimum Wage Bill....to introduce a national minimum hourly wage...., have an entitlement to the new national minimum hourly wage....The selection of a pay reference period for the national minimum wage under this Bill does not alter...In the UK the full national minimum wage applies from age 22 with a sub-minimum from age 18.
