Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2022-06-29
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Damien English (FG), Meath West

If the Senator has some magic formula, I am happy to look at it when the Bill comes before the Dáil. There is no doubt about that. Of course, we all would like to achieve that. I must be black and white on this. If the WRC tells me something is unenforceable, I have to accept it. It is the body we will be asking to police this. We want this policed. I am assuming we are here bringing legislation that we think will be policed and enforced and I have to work with the WRC on that.
By all means, when the Bill comes before the Dáil, if we find the magic formula that achieves what we all want to achieve, we can look at it. If it needs to be in regulations or anywhere else, we can do that.
We looked at it and we do not have that magic formula. To be honest, Senator Gavan is not giving me the magic formula and it was not in the Senator's previous Bill either which the WRC said was unenforceable. I am not trying to rewrite history-----

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Sitting date: 2022-06-29