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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (15 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the national social target for poverty reduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43398/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (15 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of targets under the national social target for poverty reduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43399/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Anti-Poverty Strategy (15 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025; the reason no national anti-poverty strategy was in place for the years 2017-2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43400/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Management Companies (15 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 451. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which property management companies are regulated; the provisions that exist for their effective regulation; and her plans to introduce further and stronger provisions for the regulation of property management companies. [43250/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (15 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 588. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the investigation into a protected disclosure made by a worker from a HSE facility (details supplied); if there has been engagement with the whistleblower; the details of this engagement and any future engagements planned; the estimated date for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43403/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 633. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Healthy Ireland Strategic Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43521/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 634. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the rapid review of previous progress of Healthy Ireland that was undertaken by his Department; the details of the extensive stakeholder engagement; the details of the review of goals for alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals and the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43522/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (15 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 639. To ask the Minister for Health the reason letters issued to women in the highest at risk category of ovarian cancer are saying the waiting list for an ultrasound scan is six to 12 weeks when the women themselves are being informed that it is running at 27 weeks plus; and his views on whether this is an acceptable wait time for a scan to detect a cancer that is the fourth most common...

Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak in this debate. There is no disputing that Covid-19 has turned our society and our economy completely upside down. It has brought great difficulties and has asked many hard questions of the people. In particular, it has put pressure on healthcare and medical workers. I want to talk briefly about student nurses and midwives...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: No, I will take seven minutes. I thank the Chairman and the members for facilitating me in joining remotely from the convention centre. The noise behind me can probably be heard. By way of an observation, I think we have all experienced the importance of sick benefit in recent months, In a global pandemic access to paid sick leave becomes an important instrument of public health. This has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: In the event that an employer cannot pay, it is surely reasonable that there would be a cannot-pay clause. I would have thought, however, it is equally reasonable that in the event that an employer can pay, the employer should pay. Mr. McDonnell made reference in his submission to the perceived lack of contribution by those who earn less than €18,000 a year. It is pretty obvious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: We learned a lesson from when the sick pay scheme in the public service was slashed. It did not actually save any money nor did it cut any illness days, because workers get sick even if that benefit is not available to them. We could learn a lot from that fairly vicious cut.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 90. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that provisional liquidators have been appointed to a group (details supplied); and if he will engage with the workers and their trade union to ensure that, regardless of what happens, the company will honour the workers' collective agreement. [44124/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Before the hostilities break out, as they inevitably will, I want to take this opportunity to wish the Minister, the Ministers of State and their families and the staff in the Department a very happy Christmas and a safe and - fingers crossed - healthy new year. I know how hard everybody has been working and I am sure they are all, like myself and all of us on this side of the House, very...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Tánaiste for his response. There are 491 jobs in the balance at the moment. That is 491 people with families, bills to pay, etc. I appreciate what the Tánaiste is saying regarding the appointment of the provisional liquidator. However, these people are in work today. They are looking at their collective agreement. They are looking at what happened to the workers in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not want to get into a slagging match about that but I am someone with a fair amount of industrial relations experience. I am not in the habit or in the practice of interfering in industrial disputes but I see a very clear role for the Government in this regard. I have spoken at length with representatives from Mandate. It is not good enough for the Tánaiste to simply say that he...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 91. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the Organisation of Working Time (Amendment) (Carryover of Annual Leave) (Covid-19) Bill 2020 which was introduced on 26 November 2020, which seeks to allow workers to carry over untaken annual leave which they could not take due to the impact of Covid-19; if his attention has been drawn to the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Again, this is a fairly straightforward question. It is to ask if the Tánaiste is aware of the Organisation of Working Time (Amendment) (Carryover of Annual Leave) (Covid-19) Bill 2020 introduced in November. It seeks to allow workers carry over untaken annual leave and to give them a legal right to be able to do that. This is leave accrued as a result of Covid-19. I am aware that in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: They may indeed refer a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission but they need a rest now and as the Tánaiste knows, it can take months, if not years, to get those complaints resolved. The purpose of the legislation is to reflect these extraordinary times we are in and while I respect the conversations he has had with employers and others with regard to them saying it is not a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: There is no suggestion that public services would be undermined. People have an entitlement to take their annual leave. If the Tánaiste reads the legislation, it provides for cases where leave cannot be taken, not cases where workers are banking their leave. I note that the Minister's first port of call is to blame the workers themselves for not taking their annual leave or to suggest...