Teen minimum wage: You wouldn't pay Lamine Yamal €8.89 an hour

Spain's Lamine Yamal receives the trophy for player of the match at the end of Tuesday's semi-final win over France. Photo: AP/Ariel Schalit

Spanish football’s 16-year-old superstar Lamine Yamal is worth a “hell of a lot more than €8.89 an hour”, an Oireachtas Committee heard during arguments against paying teens in Ireland less than the national minimum wage.

People Before Profit TD Mick Barry referenced the teenage Spanish star, who has been lighting up Euro 2024, in a heated series of exchanges at the Oireachtas Enterprise Committee on "discriminatory" sub-minimum rates of the national minimum wage.