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

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms. Lawlor. I must leave now but it is fair to say that the buck stops with the senior Minister. These are questions we can put to him.

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

Louise O'Reilly: Apologies for my absence earlier. I will catch up on anything I missed. I also apologise if my question has been asked and answered. I will not ask the witnesses to repeat themselves; they can just refer me to the transcript. It concerns a point that was made about cases being taken, and specifically, the time cases take. I think the word used was "decades". There is an article within...

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

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry to cut across Dr. Widdis, but that is my concern. Telling someone that they have the right to do something and then building a big wall between them and that right means that they might as well not have it. The perception that right exists without access to being able to vindicate that right makes it worse.

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

Louise O'Reilly: Does Dr. Widdis fear that this civil liability is going to be watered down or removed?

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

Louise O'Reilly: That is something that we, as a committee, could bring to the attention of the Tánaiste, as the relevant Minister, and try to put it up in lights. I would be surprised if he was not aware of it. However, just in case he is not, it may be useful for us, as a committee, to alert him to that serious concern. Does Ms Lawlor want to comment on the same subject?

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

Louise O'Reilly: I think we need to focus on strengthening it.

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

Louise O'Reilly: It has taken eight or nine years and presumably a significant amount of resources as well, and all the support.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I suppose the job for us is to marry up the carrot and the stick, if one likes. We can operate from the assumption that most companies want to have a reputation for being decent and treating their workers well. Nobody wants to wear clothes that have been made by children in sweat shops. However, that will not be enough in terms of persuading people. There will have to be some form of very...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our guests and thank my colleague Deputy Ward, who has facilitated my having some time to speak. To be clear, we are not here to discuss the Government legislation. I have not seen the amendments yet, in any event. We are here to discuss what is substantially the only piece of legislation that exists that will achieve the aim. I do not think there is any disagreement from anyone...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Ms La Combre is saying employers are not looking for it.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I agree and that is why it is not contained within the legislation sponsored by myself and our party president, Deputy McDonald. To be fair, I think most of the Government Members agree with us but leaving the door open or even slightly ajar is an issue, and one I wish to see dealt with. We are talking about slashing the ten days to five because of an announcement made by Government but...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It was before that.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The Department would see that as applying to the civil and public service as equally as to the private sector. I understand how it works as I have a small amount of experience with it. If the statutory minimum – I understand what that is and how that works – comes in at five days, there is slightly more than a convention within the civil and public service that there would not...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes. We have been saying it for long enough and we need to do it.

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach for the opportunity to say a few words. I only have a few minutes so I will focus on supports for businesses in the face of the energy and cost-of-doing-business crisis. The difficulties Irish businesses are currently facing are felt most acutely by SMEs and family businesses, those that were that were hardest hit during the Covid pandemic. In the...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank People Before Profit for the opportunity to speak and for bringing forward the motion. Government policy has brought us here, in case the Minister of State is in any doubt. It has not happened by accident. What has been described, quite rightly, by Uachtarán na hÉireann as a housing disaster has been caused by six years of Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael policy. The Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 150. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons who received a general employment permit for a sector (details supplied) since the start of 2017 who applied for and were granted a new employment permit with a different employer while in Ireland within the first 12 months of their original employment permit. [52749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons who received a general employment permit for a sector (details supplied) since the start of 2017 who applied for and were granted a new employment permit with a different employer while in Ireland to date. [52750/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (25 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of data centre projects in which IDA Ireland have invested over the past ten years; and the volume of funding in tabular form. [53191/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (25 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies in which IDA Ireland has invested over the past ten years that have data centres in the State; and the volume of funding for same in tabular form. [53192/22]