Simon Harris under pressure from party to emphasise supports for enterprise in coming months
brought forward, which examined the impact of the various policy measures that the Government had introduced to improve working conditions, had identified the necessity “in particular improving rates of pay, minimum wage and, improving certain leave entitlements and so on”.
“And we are committed to examining what we can do in that space before the Budget. We discussed this a number of weeks ago at Cabinet committee level. And Minister Coveney brought forward a proposal to develop options paper to Cabinet recently. So that work is advancing through the Department of Social Protection. That is what I support. And that is a move that I would support, as soon as it has been completed.
When asked about the possibility of a transfer pact between himself, Tánaiste Micheál Martin and Simon Coveney in Cork South-Central, where all are running, Mr McGrath said there would be no transfer pact. He said, however, that he “very much respected” Mr Coveney’s approach to work and that they worked well together at constituency level, national level and around the Cabinet table.
“We’ve worked closely with Simon around the Cabinet table for the last four years, and, I’ve been impressed with his work as a minister. Clearly, his colleagues in Fine Gael, fully support him, and he will be elected as Taoiseach of the country in two weeks time.”
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