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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Even if it were your favourite? I am only joking. I have one more question after which I will pass over to my colleague, Senator Gavan. We were told in our hearings that the principles have not been updated since the 1980s and that they cannot be amended to include a clause that will insist on co-operatives respecting and upholding workers' rights as a principle. I disagree with this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I dearly wish it did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: And so we all should be but we are dealing with co-operatives this morning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022: Discussion (15 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses and I will hand over to my colleague.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (15 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance if the thresholds for the temporary business energy support scheme, namely the need to experience a 50% or more increase in electricity and or natural gas average unit price, and the claim for 40% of the increases in energy bills, are the fullest extent to which the relaxed State aid rules can be applied for the scheme; if not, if the Government has scope...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The Taoiseach thinks there were about that number built.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I send my sympathies to the family and friends of Brianna Ghey and solidarity to her trans siblings at this time. Last week, the Taoiseach not only disputed research produced on behalf of Barnardos which found that one in ten parents has used a food bank in the past year, he sought to undermine the data. As has been clarified, his criticisms of the data were totally, wholly, completely...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (21 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The Department’s strategy statement makes no reference to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, DSGBV, despite the commitments made by the current and former taoisigh of their office's significant role in the implementation of the third strategy. When will this be rectified? The Taoiseach knows that it is the intention of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: There are 663 patients without beds in hospitals across this State today, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO. Its members continue to be concerned about their ability to provide safe care in what the INMO describes as an intolerable situation for vulnerable patients and front-line workers alike. After a month-long consultation, the INMO executive has sanctioned...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Not a day goes by that I am not dealing with people in insecure accommodation in my offices in Swords and Balbriggan. It is without doubt the number one issue we deal with. It is no surprise the Government representatives in my area are largely absent when their constituents are looking for answers or help. The situation is desperate for many. The latest family to cross the door of my...

Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Sinn Féin welcomes the changes that have been made to the TBESS by the Government. For several weeks, we have been telling the Government that the TBESS is failing SMEs and microbusinesses, in particular due to the interlinked problems caused by the qualifying threshold being too high and the relief being too low. As a result, SMEs and microbusinesses have struggled to access the...

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to refer to the amendments put forward by an Teachta Doherty, specifically the one concerning home heating oil. It is not, as some might suggest, a rural-only issue and, in fact, it affects many people in my constituency. Many of them will be scratching their heads when they learn that the Government has accepted, the argument having been won by myself and others, that businesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sharing with my colleague.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: As a former trade union organiser who represented workers in the Rehab Group, this is not the first time that group has ignored a Labour Court recommendation. I hope it is the last. I ask our guests from the Rehab Group and the NDA how confident they are that the 2025 minimum target of 6% will be met. Is it ambitious enough? On one hand, you want to set an ambitious target but there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: People can only learn by doing and experience, and be informed by that going forward. I ask Mr. Hannigan first and then our other guests to comment on how a lack of access to appropriate housing and accessible public transport impacts on people with disabilities in gaining and, importantly, staying in employment. If it takes a massive effort to get into work, you might be able to do it on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It is awful to think that there are people who want to be out working but they are stuck in their house and, in some instances, stuck in an inappropriate housing situation. I put the same question to the other witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: There is a Twitter account called Access For All and every morning that group tweets how many lifts are out of service. If we all put ourselves into the mindset of employers we will realise that it is very hard for them, and for other workers. Employers will be constantly thinking that so and so is not in today because a lift is out of order. Access issues are basic and it is incredible to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It is all very well to talk about the future but the lifts are not working today. The infrastructure exists but if people cannot rely on it, disabled people are at a disadvantage. We are discussing the disadvantages that exist. Disabled people are put at a serious disadvantage when they cannot say for certain whether they will be able to turn up for work. I have more questions but I know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I acknowledge that the Twitter account is called Access for All Ireland. I believe I got the name wrong. I thank Sophia and her dad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: No. I actually checked because I did not believe the name was right. I thank Sophia and her dad because they record the information every morning. My heart sinks every morning on seeing the number of lifts out of order. What do people do? If they can go up the stairs, they are grand. If they cannot, they have to ring work again to say they will not be in because they do not have the...