People Before Profit tabled a motion to increase the minimum wage in the Dáil on Wednesday, which the Government did not oppose. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
People Before Profit have called for the minimum wage to be raised to 15 per hour with people now experiencing a “cost of survival crisis”.
The party has urged workers to put in “significant pay claims” that at least match the current rate of inflation.
Meanwhile, the Government has said it will finalise a package of measures to tackle the cost of living “very shortly”.
People Before Profit tabled a motion to increase the minimum wage in the Dáil on Wednesday, which the Government did not oppose.
However, Dún Laoghaire TD Richard Boyd Barrett said while the Government would accept the motion, they had “absolutely no intention of actually acting on it”.
“The public should know that this is the cynical way in which politics operates in here and the way this Government behaves,” he said.
“They [the Government] are spineless but behind the scenes they operate to maintain the status quo and effectively ignore the really desperate situation that working people are facing at the moment as a result of the Government’s own failures.”
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