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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: This is another fairly straightforward question. While I do not imagine for a minute that the answer will be easy or straightforward, it is something that should be investigated by the Department and should form part of the discussions around both the July stimulus and other measures as we move forward. As the Minister said, this is only the first foray and then there will be more measures...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Earlier, when we were discussing the striking down by the courts of the sectoral employment order, SEO, the Tánaiste confirmed that those who were engaged on Government contracts would honour the terms of the SEO. We know that the Government knows how to respect workers' rights. The question is whether it is going to use the power it has to enforce them. I ask the Minister of State to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I remind the Minister of State of the words of the Prime Minister of New Zealand. "Economic growth accompanied by worsening social outcomes" is not worth having. We fully respect and we will insist that extraordinary measures be taken in extraordinary times to sustain jobs, but it is not counterintuitive to insist that those are also decent jobs. The recovery of which the Minister of State...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I start by putting on the record a concern I have about the scale of this legislation and the tight timeframe allowed to us in opposition to submit amendments. This is a 142-page Bill and it is broad and complicated. As it was only published last week, we only had two working days to submit amendments. I know it is necessary legislation but I request that the Minister and the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 38. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding that has been made available for each of the schemes offered to assist businesses due to Covid-19; the number of applications to each scheme; the number of unsuccessful and successful applications, respectively; the amount approved and sanctioned for successful applicants under each of the schemes; the amount actually...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 1028. To ask the Minister for Health if the national maternity hospital, Holles Street, has received a new scanning machine for mesh implants; and if staff have received training on the way to use it. [14858/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 1134. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of hospitals that act as mesh centres at which women who have been injured due to the use of mesh can see a specialist. [15316/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 1135. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of hospitals that have the necessary scanning facilities to detect mesh implants in women who have been injured due to the use of mesh. [15317/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed) (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our witnesses for attending and for the information they have provided. My first question is to Mr. Ryan and it relates to a matter raised earlier by another member on the low level of Covid-19 in the forensic services. Am I correct in stating that the forensic services are in one building or are there additional services throughout the country?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed) (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: When Mr. Ryan refers to the forensic mental health services, it sounds as if there are multiple locations but that is clearly not the case. On what date were visits to the Central Mental Hospital restricted ? I imagine Usher's Island would have been closed in the early stages and then the visitor restrictions relating to the Central Mental Hospital would have kicked in. What date was that?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed) (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: It was done exactly in line with the NPHET recommendations. The HSE did not close it ahead of that time.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed) (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Can I ask Mr. Ryan to check that so he is certain?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed) (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: That is not my understanding. It would be very helpful if he could correspond with me on that.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed) (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sure Mr. Ryan, like me and the other witnesses here, is more than familiar with the Central Mental Hospital. It has a massive high wall around it and double gates at the front. It is very hard for anyone or anything to get into or out of it. It is set up similarly to a prison. I would not want the impression to be given that this is an open facility when clearly it is not. I wish...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed) (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: As such, there is no specific catch-up initiative. There were serious recruitment and retention issues before the pandemic. They were partly caused by recruitment embargoes imposed by the previous three Governments, even though their members give out about them now. With regard to the need to catch up on services, which the witnesses have not addressed, and the restart of services which...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed) (14 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Ryan referred to the use of technology. I have my own opinions about telemedicine, particularly in the area of mental health. I have made those views known and I am sure Mr. Ryan is well aware of them. I would like to draw his attention to some information provided by Samaritans Ireland. That organisation has described an increase in the number of emails it has received because...

Employment Rights: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this important motion. It is a very broad motion but it has sparked a very necessary conversation. When the Fianna Fáil Minister of State, Deputy Troy, took us through the greatest hits of the minimum wage, he left out a very important part, which is that the last time Fianna Fáil and the Green Party were in government together,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wage Subsidy Scheme (16 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to employers that are paying their employees 70% of their wages using the TWSS but are making them work 100% of their former hours; his plans to address the matter to ensure that workers are paid for 100% of the hours worked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15751/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wage Subsidy Scheme (16 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I join others in wishing the Minister well in his new role. Is he aware that in some instances employers are paying their employees 70% of their wages despite requiring them to do 100% of their work while availing of the wage subsidy scheme? Deputy Paschal Donohoe:I thank the Deputy. I am advised by Revenue that the question of an individual’s entitlements in an employment context,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wage Subsidy Scheme (16 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Employees can see that and they do not need to the Minister to point them in that direction. They see that their bosses are getting the subsidy and their wages have been reduced by 30% while their hours remain the same. The Minister said he will ask employers to make their best efforts. Good luck with that because many of them do not seem to be making an effort. This is not a...