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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Ollie Crowe: I welcome the Bill but there are a number of issues with it. This should be a good news story but there are too many flaws in it. As an employer, I believe it is too heavily stacked against the employees in many cases. That can be noted from the first contribution. It gives rise to too many questions and too much uncertainty. Companies naturally need to monitor their employees by some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Ollie Crowe: May I ask one last question very briefly? It will only take ten seconds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Ollie Crowe: With regard to the clause relating to distance from the workplace and rural depopulation, does the true benefit of this not lie in that not being a requirement and not coming into it? Is that not the whole ethos of what we are trying to do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Ollie Crowe: I meant people working from within the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Ollie Crowe: Am I okay for a minute?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Feb 2022)

Ollie Crowe: I join my colleague, Senator Kyne, in raising Defence Forces issues. Last Sunday I had the privilege of attending the centenary celebration in Renmore Barracks to honour the 100-year anniversary of the barracks being taken over from the British and the green, white and orange flag being raised. The barracks has always played a huge part in the life of Galway city and in our communities and...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Ollie Crowe: I am waiting to speak on a particular section, but there was an overlap, so it is fine. I would like to make a few brief points. Like other Senators, I have been contacted by the owners and I met with them for over an hour. As the Senators alluded to, it was fairly distressing and emotional. I would like to add a bit of fairness and a bit of context.Regardless of what views people on...

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

Ollie Crowe: I sincerely thank Mr. Clancy and Mr. McElwee for their contributions this morning. I commend the work that has been done by Enterprise Ireland and the Network of Local Enterprise Offices. For obvious reasons, LEO-supported companies had an extremely difficult 2020. However, the bounce-back in 2021 was very impressive for companies backed by Enterprise Ireland and local enterprise offices....

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

Ollie Crowe: I have first-hand awareness of the terrific work because I was a member of the county and city enterprise board for five years, from 2009 to 2014. I am, therefore, particularly aware of this issue. I have a couple of questions for Mr. McElwee and Mr. Clancy. What do they intend to do to assist companies that are too big for LEOs because they have more than ten employees and do not export...

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

Ollie Crowe: The Chairman might let me come back in again during the second round if he can.

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

Ollie Crowe: I wish to raise three brief issues. First, I want to highlight the terrific work Dr. Gibbons mentioned in her contribution that is being done by Galway City Innovation District, which is also known as the Portershed in Galway. Nearly 300 engineers are employed there and there is great scope and investment there. I have issued an invitation to the Minister, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, to...

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

Ollie Crowe: Great.

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

Ollie Crowe: I thank Dr. Gibbons for the answers and I thank Mr. McElwee, Mr. Clancy and Mr. McKeown for their detailed responses.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2022)

Ollie Crowe: I want to raise the decision made by Tesco on Tuesday last to outsource 100 security jobs in Galway and across the country. To put this into perspective, in the UK and Ireland last year, Tesco forecast its profits to be more than €3 billion. Savings made by this decision will not even amount to a drop in the bucket of that enormous figure, yet it will have an extremely negative...

Seanad: National Lottery (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (24 Feb 2022)

Ollie Crowe: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I want to raise a number of issues. First, I have been contacted by many local independent bookmakers in Galway and across the country and by the representative organisation. Overall, looking at the statistics, there are 800 betting shops across the county with more than 7,000 employees. They are advising that this legislation represents a...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2022)

Ollie Crowe: I welcome the Minister, Deputy McConalogue. I thank him again for his help on this issue, both now and previously. From my own point of view, this is a controversial topic. The Government is taking a rather extraordinary step to enforce the end of the sector. That is fine and probably many people welcome it. As been outlined by other Senators, however, at the end of the day, we are...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2022)

Ollie Crowe: I thank the Minister. The only request I would make is for face-to-face meetings with the families and the officials. I welcome the fact that the Minister wants to meet the families on the second occasion. The Minister has shown leadership across the State, visiting every mart in every county. The Minister knows the issues on the ground. My point is that there is a human side to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Ollie Crowe: I will share my time with Deputy Flaherty. I thank Ms McElwee and Ms King for their presentations. They both raised valid points and concerns. I note that Ms King said that union representatives on the ground are advising employers who are reluctant to engage until legislation is implemented. Will Ms King expand on that? As far as the Irish Congress of Trade Unions is aware, has it been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Ollie Crowe: One aspect I have not seen raised much is the significant knock-on impact remote working will have on city centres and inner cities in particular, where businesses rely on footfall for their custom. I see it in my own city of Galway. Retail businesses are already trying to fend off increasing challenges from digital giants, of which we are all aware. Fewer people in city centre areas will...