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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: There might not be, if others are being added.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I take the Minister's point. It is the 2,000 the figure is on. If the Minister could get the information on how that will be stepped in, that would be good. I will ask about the ICOB scheme. On the dates, the Minister has said a letter is likely to go out in the middle of next month from the local authorities. What is the estimate, in terms of time, from the letter to the money...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: -----and having rates up to date. Regarding the money, the figure of €5,000 mentioned is the maximum amount. Let us be honest; they are not getting €5,000.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It is highly unlikely.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Of the 142,000, how many are those? Will the Minister give the figures as well?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand that.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Of the 142,000, what number will receive the full or maximum amount?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Of the 142,000, what number will receive the €5,000?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Absolutely. I assume much of this was informed by the experience of TBESS.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: While we are on that, what is the Minister's view of the very low take-up of the TBESS? I assume it is not because he thought businesses did not need it, yet €1.1 billion was returned unclaimed.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Can I ask-----

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: We are very strict on time at this committee. On the €1.1 billion that was returned, is it the Minister's opinion that the Government overshot on that amount? Did it put aside more than was needed? Is there unmet need as regards businesses that, for whatever reason, did not claim? Is it that businesses simply did not need it? There is nothing outside those three options.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I have a final question. I genuinely apologise for interrupting the Minister but our time is fairly tight. On the VAT rate for hospitality, splitting hospitality and, within that area, splitting food from accommodation, it is reported in the media that the Minister had favoured splitting the VAT rate. It also appears from media reports that there was a split in the Government on this along...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I am very conscious I am eating into other people's time. All of the Minister's colleagues voted for the budget as well but that did not stop them coming out afterwards to give out about portions of it.

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 7: In page 13, to delete lines 31 to 40, and in page 14, to delete lines 1 to 6. The record will show I have been very clear in my opposition to facilitating not just the current Minister but any Minister of the day in gaining the power to amend the employment permits system by way of regulation. The Oireachtas committee outlined concerns in this regard as part of...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 27: In page 28, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: "(4) An employment permit shall include contact details for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Workplace Relations Commission.". This amendment is straightforward and quite technical. It does not change a huge amount but it could make a huge change for the people impacted by it. The...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I am content to withdraw the amendment on the basis of the commitment given by the Minister of State. For the record, no trade union has accepted the deal yet. The vote is not done.

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 31: In page 37, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “(2) The Minister shall refuse to grant an employment permit where in the 2 years preceding the day on which the application was made the person or employer who has made the offer of employment has been found by the WRC to be in breach of employment-legislation pertaining to any of the following:...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 60: In page 51, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: "Changing Employer 34. (1) A foreign national that has been granted an employment permit shall be permitted to change employer— (a)after an initial period of 12 months has elapsed since the foreign national concerned first commenced employment in the State pursuant to an employment permit...