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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (10 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of a new employment regulation order for the security industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6893/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider expanding membership of the Labour Employer Economic Forum to include an organisation (details supplied). [6897/22]

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I am grateful for the opportunity to make a contribution on the Bill. Protected disclosures and whistleblowers are often a force for good and an essential component in exposing corruption, illegality, criminality and wrongdoing in public and private bodies. Sometimes they are workers and sometimes they are volunteers and I hope that will get teased out. According to the Office of the...

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: There is a cost-of-living crisis and it is hammering low- to middle-income workers. We keep saying it, but the Minister just cannot hear it, or he hears it and does not get it, or he does get it but is not interested in doing anything about it. The Minister needs to listen and to engage with the Opposition when we put forward solutions. In my constituency of Dublin Fingal, workers are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Let us say the legislation is passed tomorrow.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Regulation (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 201. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will help SMEs by streamlining the annual statutory reporting procedures for incorporated bodies given that the current situation mandates them to submit separate statutory reports containing exactly the same information to the Companies Registration Office, the Revenue Commissioners, the Register of Beneficial Ownership and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 296. To ask the Minister for Finance if the new European Union VAT rules agreed in December 2021 at European Council level will impact on Ireland's existing derogations from European Union VAT rules. [7983/22]

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I join with others in thanking the members of the commission for the work they have undertaken. I want to specifically refer to section 8.4.5. I have not had a chance to read all of the report but I have engaged with that section with which I would be the most familiar. In 2009, when I was a union organiser, my union joined an organisation called the 24-7 Alliance, which was mostly made...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I would not do that to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if recommendation number five from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment report on the Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill will be incorporated into the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8801/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that the proposal on the reform of VAT rates may not apply until 1 January 2025; the action that his Department is undertaking in the interim to review the options now available to Ireland in setting VAT rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8462/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the removal of the VAT on defibrillators in view of work on the proposal on the reform of VAT rates at European Union level and wording which supports VAT removal on medical equipment; the preparatory work that is under way on this; the lead in time for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8463/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance if the enhanced employment wage subsidy scheme will be extended to a sector (details supplied). [8800/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost of reducing the monthly drugs payment scheme threshold from €100 to €72 for single-headed households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8806/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 234. To ask the Minister for Health if the audit on spending to date on the new national maternity hospital enabling works at Elm Park has been completed; if so, if he will provide a copy of the audit report; if not, if there is an expected date for completion; and the reason that the late 2021 completion date was missed. [8802/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 235. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of whether the Comptroller and Auditor General has determined that a value for money special report is required for the new national maternity hospital given the comments by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the audit on the spending (details supplied); if so, if he is of the view that such a report will apply to the entire new national...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 236. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the increase in the budget for the new National Maternity Hospital enabling works which has increased from €22 million to €51 million known spend to date; and if the Comptroller and Auditor General has carried out analysis to explain the variance. [8804/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 237. To ask the Minister for Health if all new national maternity hospital enabling works are now completed; if not, the further works that are in progress or not yet started; and the projected end total cost of these enabling works. [8805/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the officials for their attendance. To be parochial for a second, I commend those involved in the Look for Local campaign. It was very successful in my own area of Fingal and I have received very positive feedback from local businesses. It was a great initiative. It hit the mood of the time. People wanted to shop local. I think we all felt that and it really chimed. As it was...