Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2023-10-18
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

The real minimum wage, the national minimum wage, is set at 60% of median earnings. That was the recommendation of the Low Pay Commission, which the Government accepted. It was the consensus view of employers, unions and academics and it is the fairest way to calculate it. That is the target we will achieve, if not next year, then the year after. That is a big change just in the past five or six years. We are introducing a living wage, have introduced statutory sick pay and paid parental leave and, this year, we also will legislate for auto-enrolment so that every worker has an occupational pension on top of his or her State pension. I do not think any Government in the history of the State, on any objective analysis, has done more in terms of workers' rights than this Government.

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Sitting date: 2023-10-18