Peter Burke

Greater access to practical training and skills supports for SMEs and measures to strengthen the ability of regional businesses to recruit, develop and retain the workforce required for growth.Utilize National Training Fund more effectively.

IALPA contacted the Minister regarding Aer Lingus’s proposed collective redundancies affecting up to 70 pilots. Concerns were raised about the justification for compulsory redundancies and the national consultation proceeding before the European Works Council process is…

Ensure understanding of the business position on migration and labour market competitiveness::Ensure understanding of business position on Energy, Security and Resiliance.

Ensure understanding of the business position on the transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive

Ensure understanding of the business position on proposals for protection of workers during extreme weather.

Ensure understanding of business position on Remote Working, Retirement Age Code of Practice and Pay Transparency Directive

A system whereby all employment permit holders can change employer easily while on their permit and easily secure a route back into a new permit if they lose their job or are exploited. Greater penalties for exploitative employers.

Seeking a meeting with the relevant Minister to discuss the need to enable the long overdue payments to CIE pensioners, which was one of many outcomes arrived at from the CIE/Trade Union Agreement reached in the July 2025

Drawing to his attention the cost implications of the MAR in the Private Health Sector unless remunerated by the State through the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

Seeking a meeting with DCDE to request a delay in transposition to allow time for proportionate, coherent and workable implementation, while also allowing for the identification and consideration of potential simplification measures with the PTD

To ensure that employers and employees would not not be disadvantaged by the failure to fill a seat in the Labour Court Division.

To achieve an allocation of permits for the industry

Ensure understanding of business position on the Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) legislation

Meeting to discuss both issues

Called for a move from the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 2010, which Ireland's Employment Permit system uses to structure the critical skills and ineligible occupations lists, to a more up-to-date framework to reflect new and emerging occupations