Okay. I will withdraw it.

I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, lines 18 and 19, to delete “by an electronic mode of payment” and substitute “, including by an electronic mode of payment”. The purposes of this - there are a number of amendments that are very similar - is to say this should not just apply to tips that are paid by electronic modes of payment, in other words, credit or debit cards or whatever, but should apply to all tips. Tip theft happens with cash tips. You can have a situation where there is a glass beside the cashier that pe…

I hear what the Tánaiste is saying and I do not dispute it. It is overwhelmingly likely that the majority of tip theft occurs on electronic payments. It is much easier for that to happen. The vast majority of bills these days are probably paid by cards rather than cash. However, the theft of cash tips definitely still happens, and the Tánaiste has acknowledged that. He suggested that we cannot legislate for it because it would be difficult to prove and I do not fully understand the logic there. One can definitely t…

I move amendment No. 6: In page 6, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(1A) (a) An employer to which this section applies shall, within 6 months of the entry into force of this Act, negotiate an agreement with employees providing for tips or gratuities to be distributed in a fair manner. (b) An agreement under subsection (a) can be reviewed upon the request of twenty percent of the relevant employees.”. The purpose of amendment No. 6 is to compel employers to negotiate an agreement with their employe…

I move amendment No. 7: In page 6, lines 21 and 22, to delete “by an electronic mode of payment” and substitute “, including by an electronic mode of payment”.

I move amendment No. 10: In page 6, line 35, after “fair” to insert the following: “or in considering on foot of a workplace inspection whether or not a distribution under subsection (1) of tips or gratuities to an employee is fair”.

I move amendment No. 11: In page 7, to delete lines 3 and 4.

I move amendment No. 12: In page 7, line 5, to delete “and influence”.

I move amendment No. 13: In page 7, line 11, after “distributed” to insert the following: “where such an agreement is deemed to have been negotiated fairly with employees and is not itself manifestly unfair, it shall take precedence over other factors and circumstances”.

I move amendment No. 17: In page 7, to delete line 34, and substitute the following: “offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine, maximum of twelve months’ imprisonment or both.”. This grouping is crucial in terms of the penalty for a breach of this legislation. The current proposal is for a class C fine of €2,500. That is completely inadequate. The risk for employers is not very high but the reward can be very high. It was reported that The Ivy restaurant was taking in €3,000 in electronic…

I move amendment No. 19: In page 7, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(9) An employer who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine, a maximum of five years’ imprisonment or both.”.

I move amendment No. 20: In page 8, to delete lines 1 and 2.

I move amendment No. 22: In page 8, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “(iii) an employer who contravenes paragraphs (a) or (b) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine, a maximum of five years’ imprisonment or both.”.

I move amendment No. 24: In page 8, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(3) An employer who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine, a maximum of five years’ imprisonment or both.”.

I move amendment No. 25: In page 8, line 21, to delete “a notice” and substitute “notices”. This is the last substantial grouping of amendments. The key amendment is No. 26, which proposes that it is not sufficient to have one notice displaying the policy, as is currently the case under the Bill, but that as many notices as are required to be clearly visible to customers should be displayed. An employer should not be able to just put it on the website; it should be on menus and publicly displayed so that it is clea…

This is about Uber. I pay tribute to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for its excellent work in publishing the Uber leaks. It revealed a major corporation, valued at $44 billion, setting itself up as a disrupter, a modern company and so on, but in reality pursuing the old, tried and tested methods of major capitalist corporations. One, it highlighted major exploitation of workers. These people provide nothing more than an app and made themselves incredibly rich, by driving down terms and co…

As a member of Fine Gael, does it trouble the Minister of State that Uber wrote a section of its election manifesto in 2016? Does he know if that is the case and, if so, does it trouble him? Does it trouble him that Mr. John Moran, a former political insider and Secretary General of the Department of Finance, was boasting to Uber about how he could effectively bypass the regular registered lobbying practices by getting personal access to the then Minister for Finance, former Deputy Michael Noonan, by dropping over …

Bringing down rents would make matters worse.

The definition is in the Bill.

The Government is going to vote against the Bill.