Results 9,321-9,340 of 12,479 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (25 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next obligatory Report on the Status of Ireland’s Seabirds to the EU Commission is due to be completed and published by the National Parks and Wildlife Service; if the report will comprehensively address the proliferation of urban breeding and living gull species as evidenced in the National Urban Gull Survey...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (25 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next formal review of the wild birds derogation process will be carried out; if it will be put out to tender; if so, the date of same; the primary and secondary legislation that will be within the scope of the review in the context of the derogation; and the primary and-or secondary legislation, if any, that will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (25 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case of a child (details supplied); the options that are open to the parent to ensure that the child gets a school place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52838/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is anything in the terms of the core funding agreement that precludes creche and Montessori schools from applying locally-agreed discounts, including sibling discounts. [53027/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (26 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 184 of 19 October 2022, when this review may be published. [53611/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline his Department's position on EU legislative proposal COM (2022) 71 on due diligence and corporate sustainability. [53894/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The question relates to the corporate sustainability due diligence COM (2022) 71. It is an extremely important proposal, which I believe we need to get right. From the hearings we have had and the small piece of research into this that I have done I believe there is a real opportunity for us to get this right and make a difference.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State. It was promised that this directive on corporate sustainability due diligence would ensure that EU companies undertook due diligence and checks along their full supply lines to prevent environmental abuses and human rights violations. The aims behind the directive were welcomed by progressive politicians, trade unionists, environmental groups and human rights...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Human rights abuses are never appropriate and no company is immune to engaging in them regardless of its size. Sorcha Tunney, the co-ordinator for the Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights, stated recently "We need to take forced labour, deforestation and oil spills out of our shopping baskets once and for all, but this proposal just doesn't go far enough and is riddled with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if preparatory work has begun to incorporate into legislation the recommendations on collective bargaining made by the high-level group on collective bargaining and industrial relations. [53895/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The Tánaiste will have received the recommendations made by the high-level group on collective bargaining and industrial relations. Has preparatory work begun to incorporate these recommendations into legislation given that, as we know, the European Council has given the green light to the EU directive on adequate minimum wages and collective bargaining on 4 October?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to join with the Tánaiste in thanking the members of the group. I want to particularly thank Patricia King, the outgoing general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, a former colleague and, indeed, a very good friend of mine. I wish her well in her retirement. I also wish Owen Reidy, the incoming general secretary, well. He has much work to do. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: We need to move quickly on this. As the Tánaiste stated, trade union density is at a low level and that means protection for workers is at a low level because the two things are interlinked. An issue that is not expressly related to this but on which the Tánaiste and I have corresponded previously is that agencies that are funded by the Government are also ignoring Labour Court...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I join the Deputy in urging the Government to take action on this as quickly as possible. It is not all vessels and it is not all employers. Where it happens, however, it is awful. We have people working 17 hours a day in unconscionably awful conditions. They are extremely vulnerable. These are migrant workers. It is already tough for workers who work on land and who might have...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: European Social Charter (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 42. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that his Department has taken to address the issues raised in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission report to the Council of Europe regarding the State's lack of implementation of the European Social Charter. [53833/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Living Wage (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 51. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the living wage recommendation proposed by the Living Wage Technical Group. [53831/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that his Department is taking to ensure that there is oversight in relation to the use of algorithmic control to ensure that automated decision-making without any human involvement is not taking place in this State, particularly in the so-called gig-economy. [53834/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the changes that are being made to the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2021. [53832/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance if Approved Housing Bodies are eligible to apply for support under the temporary business energy support scheme. [54047/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 192. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive their passport card which was applied for several months ago. [53956/22]