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Food Price Rises: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I commend my colleague, an Teachta Kerrane, on all the work she has done to highlight the reality of people in such circumstances under this Government. The Minister of State cannot pretend that he does not know there is a problem. He has acknowledged that there is a problem. He is telling people something will be coming for them in October. People cannot wait until the budget. They need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our guests for attending. It is much better when we are in the room. That is my personal preference. Mr. Mulligan said in his statement that the Minister indicated that he and his Department have a listening ear. Where was that when this was being drafted? Ms Patricia King from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, appeared before the committee, as Mr. Mulligan mentioned in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: With respect, if there was consultation, the listening ear has to be a new thing because the submissions that were made cannot have been taken on board. Otherwise we would not be here discussing substantial revisions that will be necessary to make this fit for purpose. I accept that there was a process of consultation, but Mr. Mulligan will have to accept as well that it was not robust...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Does the Department accept that those grounds will have to change now, wherever they came from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I hope that when the Department does the look back on this, it will inform how it deals with this stuff into the future. I have long argued that remote working should be considered a separate and distinct form of work, as shift work would have been when it was considered a couple of decades ago. It is its own form of work and it must have its own structures in place. The pandemic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I would not have a problem with the right to have remote working, but perhaps that is just me. I suggest that the Department start from the premise that all requests are granted unless there is a good reason not to. It has to trust people as well. Some people's work cannot be done remotely. We could not have our emergency department nurses working remotely. However, I doubt if any of them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I respectfully disagree. I also suggest that Mr. Mulligan does not have data to back that up. He has a feeling that most people did not work successfully from home. I will tell him that I have a feeling that most people did work successfully from home. I know that because they tell me that. Mr. Mulligan knows that as well, however, because the same as me and others, he probably also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: As my time is up, I will ask one very quick question. How many people in Mr. Mulligan's Department are currently availing of working from home arrangements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Changing to what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: And it is working well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That would be excellent because that would be a very good place to start.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (31 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given for a grace period for car owners whose National Car Test certificate has expired, but are booked in for a test and would ordinarily have completed the test before certificate expiration only for the current excessive waiting times. [27923/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (31 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that only two train stations in Dublin are excluded from the TFI 90 ticket (details supplied); the reason that these stations are excluded; if consideration has been given to including these busy stations in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28039/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (31 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is reconsidering the decision not to apply for loans under the Recovery and Resilience Fund given the uncertain economic outlook and the likelihood of increased interest rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27491/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (31 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a response to correspondence (details supplied) submitted to his Department will be issued. [27342/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (31 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he supports the calls for an independent examination in relation to correspondence (details supplied) submitted to his Department of his Department’s handling of the urban gull issue since 2016, especially given the recent publication by the Government of the Report of the Strategic Review of the National Parks and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (31 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that his Department persisted with the derogation decision threshold that is, represent a threat to public health and safety (details supplied), instead of using the correct derogation decision threshold as specified in the 1979 Birds Directive Article 9.1.a), and in S.I. No. 477/2011 - European Communities (Birds...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (31 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a response can be expected to correspondence submitted in relation to the case of a child (details supplied). [27330/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (31 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are in place for staff that cannot work due to suffering from long-Covid given that special leave with pay has been withdrawn. [27924/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (31 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 669. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds for stroke patients in Ireland; the deficit that exists for the population on the basis of recommendations contained in the UK's National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke on the care to be provided for persons who have suffered a stroke; the estimated cost of meeting the staffing requirements for a single bed in a stroke unit; the estimated...