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School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I very much welcome this debate. I wholeheartedly endorse Deputy O'Dowd's call for change. It has never been more needed. I am also trying hard not to enjoy all the Government speakers coming to the House to speak about the deplorable state in which the Government has left transport for kids trying to get to school. We all know that school transport is an essential service,...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank my colleague, Teachta Kathleen Funchion, for bringing forward the motion and all of the work she has done and engagement she does on a daily basis with providers and early childhood educators. We all know it is an essential service, but like many essential services in the State it has suffered from significant neglect by successive Governments. It has been more or less left to the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (3 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that pensioners of a company (details supplied) are struggling with the cost of living because their pensions were cut and are in no way keeping pace with inflation; if he has any plans to meet with them or their representatives to discuss their pension issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42275/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State and Ms Higgins for their contributions. I have a couple of questions for them. As has been said, the committee is very positively disposed towards this endeavour on the part of the Government. If anything, we would like to see more of it, which is always a good thing. What role could employee-owned businesses, which I might call workers' co-operatives, play...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State. He should always keep social enterprises in his thoughts as well as workers' co-operatives. Incredible work is being done on a shoestring. The organisations based on the social enterprise model have a massive role to play. There may be people waiting to be asked when the net could be spread a little wider. Social enterprises should always be kept to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: To follow on from that, I read recently in the newspapers that Irish hospitals discard 50 million plastic aprons every year. Nobody disputes that they are necessary and a natural part of the health service. Dr. Mary O'Riordan and her cousin Lisa O'Riordan of HaPPE Earth are trying to engineer a more sustainable solution to this with their aprons. Can the Minister of State point to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Very impressive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It is and that is why I picked the health sector as an example because it is an area with great scope. However, as the Minister of State says, it has difficulties with infection control. You can always be guaranteed that when opening the seal on something that it is going to be medically clean. An issue was raised by another Deputy a couple of months ago in the Dáil regarding the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: That is huge. That is a massive part of it. Members of any residents' association Facebook groups will often see posts with questions on how to get a washing machine fixed. Half the replies will be people saying "Just throw it out, you can get one for €99 in a certain shop". That is common. There is a real appetite for repairing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Circular Economy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: My apologies, my time is up.

Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I support the amendment. As the Minister of State has pointed out, it arises from an amendment I proposed on Committee Stage. I thank the Minister of State, the officials and the staff of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel for their work on this. It is very important that sanctions from the EU, UN or International Criminal Court should also be notified to the Minister. If we are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to raise with the Tánaiste a long-standing issue that stretches back almost 15 years, namely, the pay dispute involving thousands of section 39, section 10 and section 56 workers who have not had a meaningful pay increase during those 15 years. As I am sure the Tánaiste will agree, merely naming just the section 39, section 56 and section 10 workers does a great disservice...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: They are not public service organisations but they are providing public services. They are doing it on wage rates that are way behind those who are their exact and direct equivalents within the public service. The Tánaiste said it is his hope that the dispute will be resolved, but he could do a little bit more than hope. He could actually be proactive about it, and that is what the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Some weeks ago, the medical technology company Merative contacted approximately 250 workers to notify them that their positions were at risk. Thereafter, the statutory 30-day consultation period relating to collective redundancies kicked in. Unfortunately, at-risk workers have contacted my office to say they are concerned that no meaningful consultation is taking place and the company is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics (11 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our witnesses for the information they have shared with us this morning. While I was reading the submission last night, I was having a think about this. Naturally, you think about your own schooling, when many of us were first exposed to physics, although I have a cousin who is a physicist who tells me that physics is all around us so we have been exposed to it since we were babies....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics (11 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: That is a very good point. Ms Longmuir is right; the negativity is coming from both ends of the spectrum, if that is even possible. She makes an interesting point on the adults being the influencers. The tendency is to ask young people why they are not doing things better or why they have not fixed what we did wrong. We should actually be talking directly to the people who are influencing...