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Science Week 2021: Statements (10 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak this evening about Science Week. I will use the short time I have to speak about investment in research, development and innovation, RDI. Recently, at the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, the independent body that reports in an advisory capacity to the Government on...

Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: As my colleague, an Teachta Cronin, has outlined, this is legislation we dearly hope no person will ever have occasion to avail of. We know, as I do personally, that there is no greater loss for parents than the loss of a child. In circumstances where a person is grieving the loss of a child, we should not add economic difficulties to their stress. As Deputy Cronin outlined, the vast...

Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I wish to address something I would like to think the Minister of State is aware of, which makes me very disappointed that he is prepared to do nothing about it. Perhaps he is not aware of it. Every winter, in homes up and down the State, people do not get formally disconnected but many people are on a meter because they have fallen into arrears. The Minister of State will acknowledge we...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 230. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied); when services will be provided for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54928/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: It is a very simple question.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are barriers to reducing the VAT on non-alcoholic beer, stout and cider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54211/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (9 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the challenges faced by organisations and businesses in the leisure, sporting and charity sectors in accessing affordable public liability insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54212/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (9 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way the Report of the Commission on Pensions will be assessed by the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if there is a timeline for its journey through the Houses of the Oireachtas. [54671/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 553. To ask the Minister for Health when a group (details supplied) will be prioritised for the Covid-19 vaccination. [54011/21]

Monitoring Adequate Housing in Ireland: Statements (4 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission for this important report. It is an informative piece of work looking at six dimensions of housing adequacy: accessibility, affordability, security of tenure, cultural adequacy, quality and location. It also provides us with baseline figures on the housing situation for a range of socioeconomic groups. This research is important...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Yesterday, the report by the relevant Oireachtas committee on its pre-legislative scrutiny of the online safety and media regulation Bill was published and has been broadly welcomed. However, a note of caution was sounded by Samaritans Ireland which said that, in its view, the registered providers should have a duty to support staff who undertake moderation of harmful content. The job of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: It is not, which is very regrettable.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Deaths of Irish Citizens Abroad (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53522/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chairman. I thank the witnesses, especially for being here. It is very welcome. I want to look at the issue of productivity. There are two parts to my question. Clearly our economic base is pretty unique in Europe. We went from agrarian straight to foreign direct investment, FDI, and did not stop on the way to build manufacturing or any indigenous industry. I would like to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I believe that the right to collective bargaining has to be part of that. We cannot simply have a system whereby the State, when it feels like it, gives rights to workers or says to employers that if they do a certain thing, it will give them a certain thing and they have to respect workers' rights. If workers' rights are for sale, eventually the price becomes too high. I would like to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: In the short term, we are talking about mobile labour that may be attracted to some of the work here. Is it necessary to put measures in place to control rents? At the moment, there is a difficulty with the rental market in Dublin. It is driving people out of the capital and to the regions. It is acting as a barrier for this highly productive mobile labour that may wish to move here. Are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: We are going to push up prices unless we control them. The raging free market got us the rental market that we have. I agree that more pressure on the rental sector will push up the prices unless controls are in place. I would like to focus on that in the short to medium term. I am talking about people who are scanning the rental sector here with a view to potentially moving, either from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Can the witnesses specify how our competitiveness is suffering because of the crippling costs of housing, childcare and living? The report states there is an impact. Can that be quantified, maybe not in pounds, shillings and pence, but maybe using another quantifiable figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Gilvarry.