A Junior Jobs Minister has called for a 25% rise in the minimum wage over the next two years.
Waterford deputy John Halligan wants the current wage of €9.15 per hour to raise to €11.50.
Mr. Halligan has also called for a move away from the minimum wage towards a living wage.
Speaking to Beat News, Mr. Halligan explained the living wage concept, "I don't like the determination or I don't like the idea that we call something a minimum wage, something mimimum that you can barely exist on."
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He went on to say that, "very many families in Ireland today, hundreds of thousands of families exist on the minimum wage."
