Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2024-05-28
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I welcome the membership on the oversight body. It will be an invaluable resource. I will still press the amendment but I do welcome this. The oversight body will be very useful to the Minister to ensure and monitor standards. I welcome the confirmation of the right to association and to form a union. However, Ireland still needs to strengthen its legislation in respect of the right to collective bargaining, which is slightly different from the right to form a trade union. The right to collective bargaining in the workplace is something that needs to be reinforced. I thank the Minister of State.

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Sitting date: 2024-05-28