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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to ask about expanding our base of exporting SMEs. We have an open economy and a significant trade surplus relative to our size. However, that is not replicated at the SME level. SME export levels are low by international standards. Approximately 6% of our SMEs trade directly across borders. The share of SMEs in total domestic value is also relatively low. Most do not export. A...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Absolutely. It is welcome to hear that and it leads me to my next question. Historically, we have not been brilliant at helping businesses to develop and grow into large corporations. There seems to be a feeling that is hit early. The State has a responsibility and a direct role to play in ensuring we help micro businesses to become small businesses, small businesses to become medium...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: We have the capacity. The ideas, companies and talent exist and there is an opportunity, but it requires an intervention.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: -----stay here and expand. Is it Mr. Carey's intention - I am not trying to bounce him into saying something - to establish a specific unit in EI or to simply shift around the focus a little of what is already being done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It would also be worthwhile to talk to the companies that sold up instead of scaling up to find out what drove that decision. In some instances, they will do so and perhaps no one can stop them, but anecdotally I hear, since no one is monitoring it closely, that some feel that they do not have an option because the support is not available for them to scale up. They sell up because that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome that. The difficulty is that when businesses sell up rather than scale up, the business and the workers employed by it are left at the mercy of new owners. That is not to say that just because it is an Irish business, it will necessarily stay here but there is a greater chance it will-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I will keep my remarks fairly brief. I like to think I have a fairly good handle on Dublin. I have lived in Dublin 1, Dublin 6, Dublin 7, Dublin 12, Dublin 14, south county Dublin and now live in north county Dublin and I support the idea of a directly-elected mayor. However, I have a concern, and it was mentioned by the south Dublin chamber, and it is about the danger that potentially we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: My suggestion was not that there is an inevitability about it. My concern is that it may happen and that in trying to prevent this being city centre-centric, which is a danger or concern, there might be too many layers of bureaucracy stacked in, thereby losing local focus and getting subsumed into bureaucracy. This is something to watch. It is something that I support but we must ensure a...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: In its most recent sentiment survey, Fingal Chamber of Commerce states: The slow delivery of infrastructure, specifically housing, presents a threat to Ireland's competitiveness and reputation resulting in a direct impact on recruiting and retaining employees and, worryingly the ability to attract additional FDI ... Almost 43% of businesses in Fingal said the availability of housing and...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: That is misleading the House.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: That is not true.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Where are the Minister's clinics?

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Where are the Minister's clinics? He should publish the details.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It is 20 pages.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Nobody believes that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (7 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, for being here this evening. A fortnight ago, the Supreme Court published its long-awaited decision on defining employment status. The court ruled that delivery drivers for Domino's Pizza should be treated as employees and not as contractors. The Supreme Court ruling has massive implications in the battle against bogus self-employment....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (7 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: With the greatest of respect, if the Code of Practice on Determining Employment Status was doing all that the Minister of State thinks it might be doing, I genuinely would not be here now. I would have a fighting chance of catching my train, which, I think, I will miss, and I would be gone home. That is not sufficient. Clearly, pursuing the matter for 13 years in the courts shows that it...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Child Poverty (7 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 87. To ask the Taoiseach if part of the work of the Child Poverty and Well-Being Programme Office, which was established in his Department and aims to tackle child poverty and enhance children's overall well-being in Ireland, will be to examine infant and young child feeding under its focus area to consolidate and integrate public health, family and parental assistance, and well-being...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 18 October 2023, when a person (details supplied) can expect to be assigned the correct pay grade and receive their entitled pay increments. [47540/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (7 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 311. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of tax liabilities warehoused by companies in the NGO sector under the debt warehousing scheme, and for these NGOs to be subdivided into the sector they are operating in; and for this information to be provided in tabular form. [47754/23]