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Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I have similar amendments. I agree with what an Teachta Paul Murphy has said. I want to include a reference to the need to have a GP certificate because it is a fact in this State, and I am not comparing us to every other country, that we do not have universal, free at the point of delivery access to GP care. It is not true to say the majority of low-paid workers have access to it. In...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Very briefly, it is an awful pity that my amendment was not accepted, which would have phased in this requirement to present a medical certificate alongside the extension of the universal access to GP care.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 22: In page 7, line 4, after “day” to insert “equivalent to their full daily rate of pay”.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 12: In page 6, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(b) the state of society generally, the public interest and employee well-being;”.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I agree. It makes me a bit nervy, given that previous Governments have reduced sick pay entitlements for civil and public servants. I am not going to get into it, but that was done and there were all the reasons in the world given for it. I think it was Deputy Howlin at the time who said it would improve productivity, but it did not. I am concerned, given there is form on this, that it...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome that and the clarification. The Minister is going to double-check it and that is fair enough. With regard to the service requirement for parental leave, parental leave is something that is planned. One does not wake up and suddenly find oneself with a child and eligibility for parental leave, or at least I hope not. Sick leave is different because it happens suddenly. The two...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 5: In page 5, to delete lines 30 to 32 and substitute the following: “(5) An employee’s entitlement to a statutory sick leave day shall commence from their first day of employment.”. We have already discussed the amendment.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but what about amendment No. 10?

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I cannot catch a break.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I have tabled a similar amendment regarding what should be considered. Of course, it is open to the Minister to consider a rake of things that may not be in the legislation, but we want to include "the state of society generally, the public interest and employee well-being” in what should be considered. On the inclusion of "employee" well-being, it is not a word I like. I prefer the...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: My amendment No. 5 is similar to amendment No. 4. I appreciate that the Government's amendment No. 7 is an effort to address our concerns on this issue, which the Tánaiste indicated previously that he would consider. What he has proposed is an advance and it certainly is welcome. It captures the situation of childcare workers, who adhere to a fixed pattern of work that includes a...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I think we are in danger of losing our way on this a little. Sick pay is a very important instrument of public health. For employers who may struggle to pay even the modest amount of sick leave provided for in the Bill, which will increase further as time goes on, there is a benefit to them that I do not believe we are considering. When a sick person comes into the workplace and makes...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I ask for an update on the status of the Protection of Employees (Collective Redundancies) Bill. Figures this week show that the administrators who looked after the sale of Debenhams in Britain made £5.3 million in fees alone. It makes you wonder how much KPMG made out of the disposal here. Workers here received a training fund after a year on the picket line and protesting. What is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It is when disputes get settled.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It should be in the room.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It will not be resolved until the Department is in the room, with respect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our guests for attending. It is much better when we are in the room. That is my personal preference. Mr. Mulligan said in his statement that the Minister indicated that he and his Department have a listening ear. Where was that when this was being drafted? Ms Patricia King from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, appeared before the committee, as Mr. Mulligan mentioned in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: With respect, if there was consultation, the listening ear has to be a new thing because the submissions that were made cannot have been taken on board. Otherwise we would not be here discussing substantial revisions that will be necessary to make this fit for purpose. I accept that there was a process of consultation, but Mr. Mulligan will have to accept as well that it was not robust...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Does the Department accept that those grounds will have to change now, wherever they came from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I hope that when the Department does the look back on this, it will inform how it deals with this stuff into the future. I have long argued that remote working should be considered a separate and distinct form of work, as shift work would have been when it was considered a couple of decades ago. It is its own form of work and it must have its own structures in place. The pandemic...