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Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I wish to press the Minister of State on the timetable for that. I acknowledge reference to the very best efforts and all that, but I have a genuine concern that we will be back here in four or five years with this issue still not resolved. I would like more information on the timeline. I appreciate the Minister of State has sought a bilateral meeting in two and a half weeks. What is the...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 2: In page 11, to delete line 4 and substitute the following: “(b) an employees’ recognised trade union and/or an employees’ representative.”.”. This amendment seeks to insert that when a petition for the winding-up of a company is being made to the High Court, employees and their recognised trade unions are notified. The ICTU...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That underlines the need for us to get the minimum wage directive adopted as soon as possible to clear up issues around a multi-union environment. The Minister of State accepted my bona fides on this. The intention is not to do anything other than be helpful. The concern is not addressed in the legislation. I understand the point the Minister of State makes that if there are ten...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 3: In page 13, after line 32, to insert the following: “Amendment of Act of 2014 28.The Act of 2014 is amended by the insertion of the following sections after section 621: “Power of the Court to return assets which have been improperly transferred 621A.(1) The court has the following power where, on the application of the Minister or the...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Tactical insolvencies happen. We can put any name we like on them. They should not be allowed, and we all know that. If sufficient laws had been in place to protect workers like those in Debenhams, TalkTalk and Clerys, workers would not have had to protest and engage in the action they were forced into. They did not do that as a first choice. I know this because I spoke to workers in all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for attending and for their evidence. I apologise, as I will have to leave. I am due to speak in the Dáil, but I will stay for as long as I can. This is a large area and I have quite an interest in it. Hands up, I do not know a great deal about it, but I am trying to read myself into it and learn as much as I can. I will ask a couple of questions and, if I get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It was. I do not want to cut across Dr. Evans but I may have made my point badly. The issue is not that the system does not work but rather what triggers the system. I am going to offer an opinion and I want to be very careful in what I say. In some instances, politically motivated complaints are made. Such complaints are not made because the complainants believe the content is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, that is it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: One person's disinformation is another person's political cause. The question is how to stop that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The trick is to preserve the right to freedom of expression while also protecting people against misinformation. My point is that political bias can be injected into the system at any stage. It is not just when a complaint is made. It can come in during the moderation process. The commission needs to be really alert to it all of the time and not to just wait for a complaint. Sometimes,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: On content moderation, in his submission, Dr. Evans mentions "resolving disputes relating to content moderation decisions by online platforms, without requiring users to enter a costly or lengthy legal dispute." The Chair will be aware that I have raised the issue of content moderators on a number of occasions. Many of these large platforms have outsourced the job of content moderation. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Let us say there is a really high turnover of staff. Experiential learning is really essential for this type of work. God love those workers but it really is. If there is that really high turnover of staff, the platform will have no control over that. It has no control over the personnel who are doing this work. I appreciate Dr. Evans's answer. I really would strongly encourage him to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That would be excellent. I thank the witnesses.

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: We welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. Sinn Féin will support this legislation and we will await the publication of the wording of the referendum to make a further decision, which is entirely reasonable. I apologise in advance for my alternating and interchangeable pronunciations of the word "patent". We might tack something onto the referendum, so we can make a...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It is completely interchangeable.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (27 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the inclusion of expenditure incurred on research and development activities undertaken in the green technology space for the research and development tax credit. [9272/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Prices (27 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the use of dynamic pricing models by primary ticket sellers for tickets for cultural, entertainment and recreational events (details supplied); if he will consider amending the Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Act 2021 to prohibit primary ticket sellers from using dynamic...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (27 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider a review of the wellbeing programme in schools with a view to further helping young people in dealing with mental health and emotional resilience. [8649/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of concerns in Fingal that the ceiling for the first home scheme is insufficient; if he is aware of queries as to the reason the ceiling for an apartment is higher than a house; if these ceilings will be subject to review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8640/24]