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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: I welcome the members for participating in today's meeting in line with the exceptional measures we have to take due the Covid-19 pandemic, and I appreciate everybody's help in this situation. Members are required to participate at this meeting remotely and from within the Leinster House complex only. Members will be well aware of that. Apologies have been received from Deputies O'Reilly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister of State and invite members to contribute to this debate. I remind members to click on the hand symbol if they are speaking remotely and, importantly, to click off the hand symbol when finished. There is a rota. The first person who has indicated a wish to speak is Senator Gavan and he has 14 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: If the Minister of State is asking me to comment-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: Senator Gavan made the point that if the SEO is to be implemented properly and workers are to be protected, we need to make sure the SEO is done properly across the industry. That is the point he made about having additional inspectors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: I have always tried to chair meetings as fairly as possible and to let people speak. An SEO is being implemented across the industry. As the Minister of State said in his opening statement, this is the first time an SEO is being introduced in this industry. The Senator has raised legitimate concerns about whether it would be policed and that is a fair question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Minister of State indicated earlier that he would have to leave and that is fine. I thank him for his contribution. His officials are here. The next person who has indicated to speak is Senator Crowe and he has 14 minutes. His colleague, Deputy Flaherty, is also with us. They can share time. The Fianna Fáil speaking slot is 14 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: Does Deputy Flaherty wish to ask anything else?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: The next person to speak is Deputy Shanahan. He has seven minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: The next person who has indicated to speak is Senator Marie Sherlock, who has seven minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: Does Ms Coogan have a comment on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: It was more a contribution, I had thought, to be honest with you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: That concludes our consideration of the matter. I propose that the committee requests the clerk to the committee to inform the Dáil and Seanad accordingly. Is that agreed? Agreed. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy English, in his absence, for assisting the committee. I know he had to leave early, which he had indicated on coming here. I also thank the officials from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment has completed its consideration of the following motion: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021, a copy of which was laid in draft form before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: We move on to the next item on the agenda. We are commencing pre-legislative scrutiny of the redundancy payments (amendment) Bill 2021. The Bill will provide for the making of a State-funded payment to employees facing redundancy of lost opportunity accrual for reckonable service due to lay-offs caused by the Covid-19 restrictions since last year. As things stand, employees who have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: I invite members to discuss the proposed Bill with Ms Breathnach and Ms Mulready. I remind members participating remotely, as all members are, to use the raised hand feature and, importantly, to cancel it when they finish speaking. The first person who has indicated to speak is Senator Gavan and he has 14 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: The next person who has indicated to speak is Deputy Stanton and he has seven minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: I call Senator Sherlock and she has seven minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: As nobody else has indicated, that concludes our consideration of this matter. I thank Ms Breathnach and Ms Mulready for assisting the committee. I also thank the members for allowing us to proceed with this matter as quickly as we could. That concludes the committee's business in public session. I propose we go into private session to consider other business. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business of Select Committee (30 Nov 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: I welcome the members who will participate in today's meeting. In line with the exceptional measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the exception of myself and the committee secretariat, all members of the committee are participating remotely. If they are participating in the meeting remotely, all members will be fully aware that they are required to participate within the Leinster...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: I have some questions of my own. The Minister of State spoke about establishing the humanitarian support scheme on a statutory basis, which I welcome because at the moment it can be quite ad hoc. As Deputy Stanton said, it is a very effective and useful scheme when it does work. I have seen situations where businesses were flooded and the uncertainty around whether they will get grant...