Second Stage Current 27th Seanad 80/2025
National Minimum Wage (Inclusion of Young Persons, Apprentices and Interns) Bill 2025
- Sponsor
- Malcolm Noonan
- Introduced
- 9 Dec 2025
- Last updated
- 10 Dec 2025
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- Young employees will receive the full national minimum wage instead of reduced youth rates.
- Apprentices become covered by minimum wage laws for the first time; interns and work-experience participants must be paid minimum wage.
- Amends the 2000 National Minimum Wage Act to expand who qualifies for statutory wage protection.
Stage timeline
- First Stage 27th Seanad9 Dec 2025
- Second Stage 27th Seanad9 Dec 2025