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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Community Development Projects (14 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I have raised this issue on a number of occasions. I have been campaigning on this issue for a number of years, as have the local Labour Party and our local area representative Shane Folan. This impacts some on my colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, as well, because the issue borders his constituency too. I am referencing the Dublin 13 and Dublin 17 area, where the Minister of State will be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Community Development Projects (14 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am reassured by the response from the Minister. I do sometimes get a little disappointed with the political reaction as if there is no influence that the Minister can have in this regard. We know that the soft power of a Minister can be quite strong. The Minister needs to be an advocate and a persuader for this. Her office and her Department needs to be fully engaged on the progress of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 601. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm that the current agreed process of issuing a service requirement to each of the existing funded organisations will be maintained as preparations for cycle 2 of the new youth sector funding scheme are underway; if his Department has no intention of moving towards a competitive tendering...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It just so happens that an Oireachtas football team is going into Mountjoy Prison today to play a match, so it is appropriate that the witnesses are here to discuss this topic. I remember reading an article by Neil Gaiman in The Guardian some years ago in which he wrote that the prison service in the US had been outsourced to private providers. When an attempt is made to assess what the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Would it not be ideal if there was not that two-month gap in the year? Teachers are teachers, I understand that, but is there a way of being flexible and working around that? If somebody is getting into and enjoying something, beginning to enhance and empower themselves, that two-month break can be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am pretty sure we are going to get hammered in this match today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: So I believe. I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding progress on the development of a new permanent school building for a school (details supplied). [44371/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (14 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the transfer of a school (details supplied). [44372/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions that his Department plans to take to quantify and address the threat to jobs created by the massive increases in costs for energy-intensive enterprises across manufacturing, hospitality, tourism and other service industries. [45080/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I wish to ask the Tánaiste about what is probably the biggest issue the Department will face over the coming months, which is rising energy prices and their impact on small and medium enterprises, SMEs, and the potential knock-on impact on employment. What sort of analysis has the Department made on the potential impact on employment in the coming months? What supports will be put in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We need to see from the Tánaiste’s Department some kind of projections and worst-case scenario as to what sections of the economy are more at risk from higher energy prices and the knock-on effect of unemployment. I am sure that there are senior officials in his Department who can have some kind of an opinion as to what we are facing into in a worst-case scenario and what...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I appreciate that we have experience through the Covid-19 period as to what is necessary and we are going to have to do that at least but I hope the Department may be in a position to prepare for that worst-case scenario because it is going to need to have some plans in place that, hopefully, it will not have to revert to. If we have a situation where businesses go under and unemployment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action that he will take to ensure that wages for workers increase to meet the rise in the cost of living. [45081/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party has been saying for some time that Ireland needs a pay rise. What actions will the Tánaiste and his Department take to ensure workers across the board will get a pay rise? Not least of which the reason would be to tackle the cost-of-living crisis and energy bills they are facing in their households.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Herein lies the debate. What we have had for a very long time in Ireland is a disproportionate number of people on low pay. We also have a disproportionate number of people in insecure work. Perhaps the more we say this the more people will notice. A statistic I always tell the Tánaiste, and I know that he knows it, is that 23% of Irish workers are on low pay. He does not have to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Minister mentioned again that he does not have to accept the recommendation. My point is that he could take it as the minimal rate by which he could increase it. He could increase it by more. He has to recognise the number of people on low pay and the costs they already have. We have had a cost-of-living issue in Ireland for as long as I can remember. There are various costs I have...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage: Waste Management (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister of State for facilitating this debate at this late hour. Last Wednesday, I attended a safety forum in Darndale. Safety forums across the northside are meetings that take place to discuss issues of concern in the local area, attended by local city council officials and gardaí. They are an effective way for local communities to raise their concerns with local...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage: Waste Management (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister of State and I am encouraged by what she said. It is true that this is fundamentally a responsibility for the local authority but what I get from her answer is that the Department is aware of the issue, that it is engaging with the local authority, DCC, and with An Garda Síochána on the issue. It comes to the stage now where it requires a multi-agency...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 39. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact identified by the European Directive on the minimum wage that Member States with high collective bargaining coverage tend to have a low share of low-wage workers; the actions that his Department proposes to take to increase collective bargaining coverage in the private sector; and if he...