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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests this morning. We are all on the one page in that we welcome some progress on the idea of offering remote and flexible working to employees but it has to be said it will not work for every business sector and every employer. In relation to the discussion about how the heads were arrived at and who was involved, I have stated on a number of occasions that I would like to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I accept Ms King's position on that and I am in some ways in soft agreement with her. There is certainly no one-size-fits-all solution here. The problem with legislation such as this is that that is essentially what we are trying to craft. Ms King referred to private employers earlier. She talked about the tightening labour market, and it is absolutely a tightening market out there. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Ms King again, possibly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: May I ask just one more question, Chair?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Where in the legislation are employers offered the ability to look only at a blended or hybrid working model as opposed to a full remote working model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I might return to the issue of employers restructuring and re-organising in the context of remote working. Where an employer has agreed to accommodating remote working for an employee and, subsequently, has a need for sick cover or maternity leave cover, how would that be dealt with? If I have given someone a contract that allows him or her to work for home and I am now stuck for cover in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Somebody who is working outside the office continuously may either complain of discrimination or seek constructive dismissal compensation if he or she claims to have received no advancement in his or her career and blames that on the fact he or she was remote working while other people were closer to the business decision-making and so on. I think we may have seen examples of this. Is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I do not want it to come across that I do not agree with providing the right to remote working. I think that if it can be explored, it should be explored and everyone should have the right to have it considered. Nevertheless, all the unintended consequences need to be considered, from the points of view of both the employer and the employee. If we are saying people will have the right to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Ms King. The idea of a right to request remote work should be available to all workers but the microenterprises have to be kept to one side. I would like it to be noted that if ISME is putting in a submission, we should get sight of that. I would like to hear what the smaller business sector has to say about all of this.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the latest timelines for the development of a functioning maritime area regulatory authority agency; his plans in place regarding its location and development of build infrastructure to house it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10484/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 350. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of imports of roundwood from the UK in each of the years 2018 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12260/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Representatives from the European Commission (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an gCoimisinéir. He is most welcome and I am delighted to have him here. I will reflect on some of the points he has made. He mentioned corporation tax. I will point out that, as the Commissioner will know, Ireland has moved significantly to harmonise tax rates in respect of large employers. With respect to Ukraine, all of the Commissioner's comments are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Representatives from the European Commission (3 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Pensions is one other area. Mr. Schmit has highlighted the importance of pensions in his submission document. We have a new system based on auto-enrolment. We are trying to get people into a pension plan much earlier because it is something that was not happening. We do not have a significant number of contributory pensions here. I do not know if Mr. Schmit understands the concept, but...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: University Hospital Waterford, UHW, remains the most underfunded of nine in the country. In 2016, the Taoiseach and his party gave a commitment to deliver 24-7 cardiac care to the south-east region, yet in the intervening six years, however, not one single hour of additional service has been provided and we remain at 39 hours per week. Along with 14 other Deputies from the south east, I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: We are still at 39 hours per week.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: We are 18 months away from promises to expand ours-----

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this Bill, which the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, has indicated covers a range of financial measures. We must acknowledge, as other speakers have done, the pandemic supports that were introduced. I sit on the enterprise committee and we certainly asked the Government for quite a while for a number of different supports. Although we did not get it right...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his nominees to the board of South East Technological University will participate and play an active role in the ongoing process to deliver a short list of candidate names suitable for interview for the new position of president (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13011/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (8 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the selection process for the Technological University Dublin, Munster Technological University and the Technological University of the Shannon consisted of a shortlisting of candidates undertaken by a company (details supplied) followed by two further selection interviews; if this is the process that will be followed for the selection of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Brexit on Trade in Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests. I would not say we should have feared Brexit less than we did but I agree with colleagues that it has turned out to have been managed very well for a whole range of reasons. The Department and InterTradeIreland must be commended on that. I want to highlight a few points, to which the departmental witnesses might respond. I have a particular concern about the agrifood...