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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for being here and for the information they have provided. I am a massive fan of co-ops, specifically workers' co-ops. I have some small experience in working with, though not in, a workers' co-op. They are the foundation for and a fundamental part of a functioning economy that gives back to society and delivers for the workers. Co-ops can be a real force for good in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I think that is highly regrettable and as this Bill progresses, I intend to table amendments to facilitate this. Can we get information in relation how many co-ops were supported by the CDU and how that worked when they came through? I have some personal experience of the CDU. I understood it to be both supportive and important in getting these co-ops started. This legislation is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: You have to wonder whether the winding up of the CDU and the winding up of those co-operatives might somehow be related. We will have a chance to explore that at a later stage. Can Mr. Shine answer the workers' rights question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Could they be added to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: They can not, so there can be no change to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Do they specifically reference workers' rights ?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: We are going to have to do a bit of work on that. Will issues around succession planning, liquidation, administration and the sale of companies be dealt with? In 2014, the French Government introduced measures to facilitate workers requesting a buy-out as part of their succession planning through a workers' co-operative buy-out model. Is it intended that we will have anything similar?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Will it be easier to do the transfer in terms of a workers' buy-out? Will that be facilitated as part of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I have to leave for a few minutes but hopefully I will get back. I think we are missing a trick here if we do not support the smaller social enterprises and workers' co-ops. I think the scope exists within the legislation for us to expand it a little bit and improve on it. I thank the witnesses and I look forward to working with them and the officials in the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Shine for his response. Being mindful of that and that not all co-ops are equal, as it were, there will be some social enterprises, workers' co-ops specifically, that may need extra help to get going. I am mindful that the co-operative development unit, CDU, which was established, no longer exists according to my information. I had some engagement with it and was impressed with...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister is not answering questions.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister is wasting the time. He should be answering questions. He has not done so. He has not answered one question.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It is a "Yes" or "No" question.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It is a simple question.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister was given time to answer questions and not one question was answered.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Public Dental Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The dental waiting lists are chronic. Constituents of mine, from Balbriggan to Swords, cannot get a dentist. There actually is not a dentist in my constituency who will take a medical card at present. We have tried and tried. The result is that we have an unusually high level of extractions. That is really not good. It is a major sign of a failure within the system and of Government...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (19 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 19. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the obligations on the Dublin Airport Authority to respond to reports of noise made by residents living in the environs of Dublin Airport and reports that responses are not being received from residents making noise complaints; the obligations in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (19 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance the responsibility a banking institution has in relaying to a customer that their mortgage-required home insurance premium is due to increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2508/23]