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Living Wage Bill 2022
- Sponsor
- Ivana Bacik · Labour Party
- Introduced
- 5 May 2022
- Last updated
- 2 May 2025
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Renames Low Pay Commission to Living Wage Commission and changes its mandate to recommend hourly rates progressively increasing toward a living wage, defined as two-thirds median earnings or cost of essentials.
- Requires Commission to recommend minimum wage rates over three years that represent significant progress toward living wage; thereafter maintain actual living wage based on poverty measures and regional costs.
- Living wage calculated using 39-hour week multiplied by 52.14 weeks annually, assessed against CSO data on food, housing, healthcare, transport, and social participation costs for single adult.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage33rd Dáil5 May 2022
- Second Stage33rd Dáil5 May 2022
- Committee Stage33rd Dáil1 May 2025
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