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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 107 of 9 December 2021, the status of the new west regional enterprise plan to 2024; when the plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6828/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I am asking about the status of the new west regional enterprise plan, which I have followed assiduously. Where is the plan at? Is it in the Minister's office or the Department and when will it be published?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for the background. It is very helpful and I have learned a lot from all the questions and answers that I have tabled. However, the question was about the status of the plan and when it would be published. Do I take it from the reply that the plan is currently with the Department, that it is finished with the steering group, it has produced a completed plan...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State. It will be published in March and it is before the Department. Will the Department be making changes to it? Has it identified the new way forward and the transformative actions that are needed as a result of climate and biodiversity change and the pandemic? This will be a completely different plan if we are going to make language mean something. I pointed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 9 December 2021, the timeline for the next review of the employment permits occupations lists; the engagement he or his Department has had with the Department of Social Protection with regard to the ongoing exclusion of homecare workers from the critical skills list; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: My question is very specific on the timeline for the next review of the employment permits occupation list. Has the Minister or his Department had any engagement with the Department of Social Protection about the ongoing exclusion of home care workers from the critical skills list?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. He is saying the critical skills list will be reviewed in the next few weeks and a decision made on whether to add to or take from it. That is the answer to that part.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Okay. That then is going to happen and I thank the Minister of State for the clarity on that. I thank him also for the clarity on highlighting that it is not just a shortage or workers, which it is, because nationwide there are 5,322 people approved for home support but with no carer available. In Galway there are 278 persons on a waiting list and in the region, that is the community...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: This is very interesting and significant because we have a major crisis on the ground. People are suffering and services are burdened with people who should be at home with carers but cannot. There are many other implications, not to mention the backbreaking work carried out predominantly by women going in and out with terrible conditions, which the Minister of State has set out. Does it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I did not use all my other time so I might take 30 seconds. Where are we going with this? There is a crisis. Cross-departmental work is going on and the Minister of State said that gender-balanced committees have been set up to deal with this issue, but in the meantime the list is growing to 5,322 nationally, which is an underestimate. What is the short-term solution? Can we make an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay Commission (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the examination by the Low Pay Commission and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth into the introduction of a living wage in Ireland; if he has received the research report to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6826/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay Commission (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: My question relates to the introduction of a living wage and whether the Minister has received the research from Maynooth. Where are the data? What is the status? I will refer to my previous question. I am not promoting the use of permits in this regard; I am looking to see why it is not possible. There has to be fundamental reform of the conditions for carers in Ireland and for it to be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay Commission (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister said he expected the report next month. I have the privilege of being Leas-Cheann Comhairle, and I think when I listened carefully to a previous reply, the report was to be in the next few months. This is the difficulty. Can we get a precise time for when that report will be ready and when it will be published? Will the research and the report be published? I agree that one...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay Commission (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I entirely agree with the Minister. A substantial amount of that budget goes back to workers in many guises because they are simply not being paid enough. I understand many small employers cannot pay enough because there are many restraints on them, but there is no escaping the fact we need a living wage. It has certainly become much more difficult to provide it because of the way we have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Tá mé ag bogadh ar aghaidh. Go raibh míle maith agaibh as ucht bhur tacaíochta.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Ní féidir leanúint ar aghaidh mar seo. Más é bhur dtoil é, taispeáin beagáinín measa ar a chéile. Táim ag bogadh ar aghaidh anois. Glaoim ar an Teachta Ó Ríordáin.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Deputy. The Tánaiste to respond.