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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Not enough is happening.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The Tánaiste did not know how many Covids there had been, though, did he?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is working on updating or rewriting the Wildlife Act 1976; if he will provide details of the stage this process is at; if there will be a public-consultation element to this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40284/25]

Dental Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: There are 7,000 kids who have been waiting for dental treatment for more than a year. It is a damning figure and one the Government should be rightly ashamed of it. I am sure the Minister of State is ashamed of it. She might not put it on the record, but I am sure she looks at those figures and feels some shame. Despite the veneer of a public system, the vast majority of dental care is...

Dental Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The inaction of this Government has caused tens of thousands of children to miss out on basic dental care. The impact of this is felt throughout their lives.

Dental Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Now, they are getting themselves not just into long-term debt but also into short-term debt.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our witnesses. I have a couple of questions, some about the operation of the scheme and some, obviously, about the run-in to it. How many deadlines have been missed? September was the latest. How many other announcements were there? Were there two or three dates missed? It has been put back a few times.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: There were a couple of others.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Would the Department have been in a position to proceed on the September date had the Government pressed ahead with that?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Therefore, is Mr. Duggan saying it is the employers that are causing the delay or that business was not ready?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: And those have all slipped by along with the official one. Given that several deadlines have slipped past, is the Department confident it will be ready for the latest announced deadline?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Was the September date announced without any consultation with business? I wonder how that could have happened if they are so adamant now that they are not ready for it. The Department pressed ahead with a date in September and now that is being "delayed" again. I hope Mr. Duggan does not mind if I describe it in that way. Was there a miscommunication? I have got some details through...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Was this a specific request of industry? Mr. Duggan was lobbied by State Street Global Advisors Europe. The Minister was lobbied by the Irish Association of Pension Funds and the Payroll Software Developers Association and others. At what stage did they start telling Mr. Duggan that they were not ready?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: So they were ready but they wanted a delay anyway.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Duggan was the one in the meeting with them.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Duggan cannot tell me that 130,000 are ready but he can tell me that 130,000 are working on it. There have been a lot of false dawns with auto-enrolment. It strikes me that it has not been well handled. That is not any disrespect to Mr. Duggan and his colleagues, as a lot of it is down to Government decisions. I understand there has only been one official date but a number of...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Were none of those commitments in place for 30 September?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: It is just one question.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Cathaoirleach and all of our witnesses for the overview and their pre-budget submissions, which are very interesting and comprehensive. In regard to multi-annual funding and keeping pace with public service wages, will the witnesses speak about the difficulties that presents? It strikes me that the organisations will lose staff to another sector. I do not just mean one that...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Let us take meals on wheels as an example and then consider the school meals provision programme for which multi-annual funding is available. The process is constructed in a way that only massive companies can tender. They do not pay their workers well unlike in the community and voluntary sector. A stream of funding and certainty is available to that sector for private businesses. I have...