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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 235. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of whether the Comptroller and Auditor General has determined that a value for money special report is required for the new national maternity hospital given the comments by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the audit on the spending (details supplied); if so, if he is of the view that such a report will apply to the entire new national...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 236. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the increase in the budget for the new National Maternity Hospital enabling works which has increased from €22 million to €51 million known spend to date; and if the Comptroller and Auditor General has carried out analysis to explain the variance. [8804/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 237. To ask the Minister for Health if all new national maternity hospital enabling works are now completed; if not, the further works that are in progress or not yet started; and the projected end total cost of these enabling works. [8805/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the officials for their attendance. To be parochial for a second, I commend those involved in the Look for Local campaign. It was very successful in my own area of Fingal and I have received very positive feedback from local businesses. It was a great initiative. It hit the mood of the time. People wanted to shop local. I think we all felt that and it really chimed. As it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Clancy for his response. I appreciate it is not a core area of responsibility, but it should be. I will outline the difficulty. It is not a question but more of an observation that we can perhaps pick up at a later date. Where there are issues around breaches of workers' rights and entitlements or non-recognition of trade unions, or where a trade union is active and a WRC...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It is an issue on the east coast as well as the west. People on the east coast would also like to see the same emphasis on job creation in this area, which will definitely come, maybe not this year, but in future. I have a question for both witnesses. We recently heard from the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, NCPC, which told us: "The attractiveness of a location...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to ask our guests for their views on the scope for growth for workers' co-operatives. I am sure they are more than aware that there is legislation in train to reform the area of co-operatives. As they will know and as I know, the co-operative model has been found to be very productive and highly resilient across Europe, which is very relevant to the conversation we are having now....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise for interrupting Mr. Clancy but does Enterprise Ireland have a specific unit? Going back many years, and I am showing my age now, there used to be a specific co-operative development unit and it was very focused. It was not simply a case of saying a co-operative is a business and if you rock up to the business space we will deal with you as a business. I am specifically talking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Clancy for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. McElwee for that response. I have another question specifically for Mr. McElwee concerning the difficulties SMEs and microenterprises experience when competing with the massive global multinational corporations such as Amazon. Recently the chief executive of the IDA Ireland said: It is great to see Ireland continuing to attract investment and playing such an important part in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. McElwee For that. My time is up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I have one question and then must leave the meeting. This is something that we will follow up on in a more detailed discussion. I had an engagement with Mr. Clancy recently and we will have further engagements. I am trying to understand the point at which issues around workers' rights, supporting decent jobs and so on enter the process. Perhaps Mr. Clancy might enlighten us as to the point...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That might be a conversation we have at a later date. Mr. Clancy mentioned cost-benefit analyses and other analyses of Enterprise Ireland's investments. Obviously, salaries form part of that but we have a voluntary system of industrial relations. Sin scéal eile as to whether that works, but it is what it is. Mr. Clancy mentioned statutory requirements. In many instances, those are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Excellent. I thank Mr. Clancy and the other witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Sorry. That was an interruption. Please, continue.

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: There is a cost-of-living crisis and it is hammering low- to middle-income workers. We keep saying it, but the Minister just cannot hear it, or he hears it and does not get it, or he does get it but is not interested in doing anything about it. The Minister needs to listen and to engage with the Opposition when we put forward solutions. In my constituency of Dublin Fingal, workers are...

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I am grateful for the opportunity to make a contribution on the Bill. Protected disclosures and whistleblowers are often a force for good and an essential component in exposing corruption, illegality, criminality and wrongdoing in public and private bodies. Sometimes they are workers and sometimes they are volunteers and I hope that will get teased out. According to the Office of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider expanding membership of the Labour Employer Economic Forum to include an organisation (details supplied). [6897/22]