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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Minimum Wage, Cost of Living and Low Pay Commission Report: Engagement with ICTU (12 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our guests. I apologise that I will have to leave before the end of the session because I am due to speak in the Chamber.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Workers in the security industry have not had a pay rise since 2019. In August, and for the second time, a small number of employers in the industry have secured an injunction against the employment regulation order, ERO. Can the Taoiseach confirm that this ERO will be challenged by the Government? Can he also give us an indication as to when these workers are going to receive the pay rise...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute on the Bill. I commend the work of Fáilte Ireland, but I want to say to the Members from rural Ireland, some of whom spoke before me, that I am not certain of the benefit of a ramble around their own county, listing bed and breakfast accommodation, because I do not know how many international tourists tune in here to get their travel...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank my colleague, an Teachta O'Rourke, not just for the important motion, but for all of the work he is doing. The Taoiseach spoke directly to the 378,000 people who are on prepay meters and told them that they would not be cut off, but then the Minister's party colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, appearing on a television programme at the weekend, told people that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the procedure that is in place in terms of the decanting of social housing tenants, both in local authorities and approved housing bodies, when works need to be completed on their homes due to the presence of pyrite or Mica. [51466/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a comprehensive copy of the briefing notes and recommendations that he received from his Department in respect of the 2022-2023 General State-wide Wild Birds Declaration that he signed on 6 July 2022. [51766/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 399 of 12 July 2022, if he will provide a direct and more comprehensive reply as not previously provided. [51767/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department/National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) retains the records pertinent to the research, consultation and preparatory work for the drafting and final approval of S.I. No. 254/1986 - European Communities (Wildlife Act, 1976) (Amendment) Regulations, 1986, and if so, the reason these records have not been...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Diseases (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regard to the warnings to the general public posted on his Department/NPWS’s website concerning the current, persistent avian flu outbreak (details supplied) and specifically with regard to the warnings about risks from faecal waste from wild birds, if he is satisfied that these publications provide sufficient...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Diseases (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regard to the national warnings to the general public posted on his Department/NPWS’s website concerning the current, persistent avian flu outbreak (details supplied) and specifically with regard to the published warnings about risks from faecal waste from wild birds, his attention has been drawn to the best...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Diseases (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regard to the national warnings to the general public posted on his Department/NPWS’s website concerning the current, persistent avian flu outbreak (details supplied), if he will outline the way all risks from the avian flu and other attendant risks for example from faecal contamination from wild birds are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 721. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 840 of 5 July 2022, if he will give a date for when the evaluation of the obesity policy and action plan undertaken by University College Cork will be published; when his Department will respond to the evaluation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51360/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 722. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work being undertaken by his Department in relation to the restructuring of the NIAC in order to facilitate its continuing work and examining improved structural options for the committee, as per the deficiencies identified in the briefing that he received upon entering office; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 883. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct Howth harbour to respond to person (details supplied). [52010/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the review of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; and when this review may be published. [52137/22]

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Deputies for tabling the motion and giving us the opportunity to debate an incredibly important issue. It had not been my intention to speak but I looked for time to speak on behalf of two of my constituents. Many of my constituents are victims. As the Minister knows, there are many victims, many of whom will be excluded. One is a man who thinks he is aged 79; he does not know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chair. I thank our guests not just for attending but generally for the work they do. It is great to have an opportunity to have this discussion and shine a bit of a light on it. I was struck by the following line in Dr. Widdis' submission: "we presume no business wants the operational, reputational or legal risk of being linked to abuses of human rights and damage to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms Lawlor for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That will be essential because human rights defenders and unions will be the eyes and ears. If this directive is done right, they will be the eyes and ears of this directive in every home. Ms Tunney is dead right to make that point. We are talking here predominantly although not exclusively about vulnerable women workers and nobody would be more vulnerable than a woman working in the home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Expanding the sectors to include more sectors that would be considered high risk seems very reasonable. It is alarming that there are even discussions about watering down the proposal when 99% of EU businesses are already excluded. There is no point in having the directive if 100% of EU businesses are to be excluded. We need to get that right. On the engagement that either of our...