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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: All my questions are reasonably straightforward and this one is no different. It refers to a report, Low Paid Older Workers in Ireland: a Quantitative and Qualitative profile of Low Pay among Workers Aged over 50, which makes for fairly stark reading. While they do not relate to all workers aged over 50 years, the report raises concerns. I would welcome the Minister's views on it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The research was, indeed, interesting. I join the Minister in acknowledging the work of Dr. Collins and Dr. Elliott O'Dare and their teams. The specific aspects I would like to raise with the Minister concern the number of participants who believe the pay they receive is inadequate and the manner in which the living wage will seek to address this. The adequacy of pension income is a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I appreciate, as the Minister does, that older people work for a variety of reasons, but that does not mean they should not be fairly paid for the work they do. The Tánaiste announced the living wage will be benchmarked at 60% rather than 66%. I think it should be 66%. We should have a realistic and credible plan to move in that direction because that is the only way those affected...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to research from an organisation (details supplied) that found that 70% of small and medium enterprises in Ireland fear that they may have to close in 2023 due to rising costs. [62095/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: This is a very straightforward question. The question relates to research by Wise Business, a global fintech group, which found that 70% of SMEs in Ireland fear they may have to close in 2023 due to rising costs. Will the Minister outline the supports that are available for businesses and when they will be coming on stream? Has he read this report and are the results of it concerning to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Will the Minister give a definitive date for when the first payment will be made? I am aware that the scheme is open but people are anxious to know when they will get the payments. The survey from Wise Business covered 250 businesses. What they are reporting is worrying. Notwithstanding some positives in the survey, and while I do not wish to focus on the negative, they raise the concern...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: On the expansion of the rate of payments under the TBESS, is the 40% coverage of additional costs as far as the Government can go? I have pushed the Minister of State, Deputy English, a little on this question previously. I ask this because the current difficulties being experienced by Irish businesses, particularly SMEs and family businesses, are fairly significant. They need to know...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The proposed changes to the appointment process for ordinary members and an interim chairperson of An Bord Pleanála are of significant concern. Sinn Féin totally opposes them. The Minister is seeking to centralise the power of appointment in a way that will further undermine the independence of the board. Although we will not agree on much, we can all agree that confidence in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Legislative Proposal on Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses. First, I wish to apologise as I will have to leave shortly to avail of a speaking slot in the Dáil Chamber but I will catch up by reading the transcript afterwards. I have read both of the statements and listened to them. Ms Spillane outlined in her statement that environmental, sustainability and corporate governance is not just about targets and legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Joint Labour Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 94. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or his Department have any plans to strengthen the joint labour committees and employment agreements and orders. [62041/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 108. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a company (details supplied) made him or his Department, aware that it was going to lock staff out of its Dublin office on 18 November 2022. [62046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of delays in the National Transport Authority extending the life of taxis beyond the ten-year age limit for vehicles and the impact this is having on taxi drivers securing a new licence for 2023; if he will engage with the NTA about having the process expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62280/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Company Law (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance the assessment that has been carried out by his Department on a recent European Court of Justice ruling, Judgment of the Court in Joined Cases C-37/20, Luxembourg Business Registers and C-601/20, which seems to call into question the principle of a public register of beneficial ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62338/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 650. To ask the Minister for Health the options that are available for a family to obtain medical records on a deceased relative where the relative was being cared for in a private nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62281/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 657. To ask the Minister for Health the services currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access these services within their communities following a diagnosis; if he will provide an update on discussions between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62335/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Enterprise Digital Advisory Board to be established to support enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence will oversee the rights of workers and customers which are being developed within the European Union, in particular, in the Artificial Intelligence Act and the proposed Platform Workers Directive; if his attention has...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Enterprise Digital Advisory Board to be established to support enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence is not to oversee the rights of workers and customers which are being developed within the European Union, in particular, in the Artificial Intelligence Act and the proposed Platform Workers Directive, if this will...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has concerns that an overly business-focused national AI strategy will struggle to build trust in new artificial intelligence technologies amongst those who are currently seeing these technologies begin to monitor and manage their work. [62413/22]

Defects in Apartments - Working Group to Examine Defects in Housing Report: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I pay tribute to the men and women in the Construction Defects Alliance, the mica campaigners, the pyrite campaigners, and all the people who have had the courage to come forward and speak out. It is really tough for them. There are 100,000 homes impacted by this, including a number of estates in my area. I am not going to name them, not because their names are not in the public domain -...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Four Day Week (15 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the success of the four-day week research project carried out by an organisation (details supplied), University College Dublin and Boston College; and if his Department will provide additional funding for further research in other sectors of the economy to get a holistic understanding of the financial,...