Tá ceist amháin agam faoi sheirbhísí sláinte. The programme for Government commits the Government to providing additional funding to rebuild the health service, including through providing additional front-line staff. The Taoiseach may be aware that there was a protest outside involving nurses who were protesting against the decision by the Government that denied incremental credit for nurses and midwives who had graduated between 2011 and 2015. This is most unfair to those involved who are mostly young. It is unacceptable and short-sighted. Many of them will be forced to take their expertise across the globe. This will have another knock-on adverse impact on the health service which is struggling to retain nurses and midwives. Will the Government fully honour the agreement made with the INMO, the PNA and SIPTU to restore incremental credit for these graduates and end the pay discrimination?

The question raised is important. It is about restoring incremental credit for the first 36 weeks of a clinical placement undertaken in the fourth and final year of the degree programme in nursing. The Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, met the union in the past hour. His officials met those concerned last week to discuss the matter. Yesterday officials from the Department of Health and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform met to discuss whether there was scope to accelerate the review process for the restoration of incremental credit to those who graduated between 2011 and 2015 and to do so prior to 2018. The Department of Health is to submit an updated business case in a revised submission to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the coming days.

I expect that will receive consideration in terms of seeing if we can move this forward.

Following a committee session with the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, last week, I would like to ask the Taoiseach the timescale for considering the report of the commission on low pay on the question of a lousy 10 cent increase in the minimum wage. The Minister told the committee that the proposal for such an increase was not hers but rather came from the commission and has to come back to the House. She said she would prefer to give €10 an hour extra, for which I applaud her. We will not get that, but since all Deputies and, probably, Senators are due a pay rise next year, we are saying to low-paid workers, who in the main are women and young workers, that there will be an insulting increase of 10 cent per hour in the minimum wage while the cost of rents, mortgage, insurance, food and travel soar. We need to have that discussion on the floor of the Dáil as soon as possible.

There are many stressed and worried people who can barely afford to live on the minimum wage they receive and we are proposing to give them a lousy 10 cent increase. According to the programme for Government, it is hoped to raise the minimum wage to €10.80 per hour by 2020. If the Government proceeds at this pace, it will be 2028 before we get near that. When will we have that discussion?

I have made the case that the previous Government restored, and increased, the minimum wage. It had been cut by the Fianna Fáil led Government. Given the unstructured way that claims for increases came forward, the previous Government set up the Low Pay Commission to examine the relevant proposals for increases in an objective way in order to get as many people as possible to move from unemployment into jobs that pay well. The Deputy would have a different argument if this was produced by the Government. The Low Pay Commission is completely independent and objective in its views, and the Minister will consider that in the context of the budget. That is the way to proceed.

The Taoiseach did not answer my question.

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Deputy Catherine Connolly is next.

As a member of the business committee, Deputy Bríd Smith can raise the issue at the next Whips' meeting.