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Seanad Éireann · 2025-12-09

National Minimum Wage (Inclusion of Young Persons, Apprentices and Interns) Bill 2025: First Stage

LAB Nessa Cosgrove · Labour Panel

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I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the entitlement of employed young persons to the full national minimum hourly rate of pay; to provide for the inclusion of apprentices within the application of the National Minimum Wage Acts 2000 and 2015; to provide for the payment of the national minimum wage to certain persons doing work as interns or on work experience; for these purposes to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000; and to provide for related matters. When is it proposed to take Second Stage?

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LAB Nessa Cosgrove

I move:

That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the entitlement of employed young persons to the full national minimum hourly rate of pay; to provide for the inclusion of apprentices within the application of the National Minimum Wage Acts 2000 and 2015; to provide for the payment of the national minimum wage to certain persons doing work as interns or on work experience; for these purposes to amend the National Minimum Wage Act 2000; and to provide for related matters.

CC Mark Daly

When is it proposed to take Second Stage?

LAB Nessa Cosgrove this contribution

Next Tuesday.

CC Mark Daly

Is that agreed? Agreed.