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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I suppose they have to engage to be part of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: They will still have a chance. That is what I wanted to get to. On those with whom Revenues is engaging, that number is small but likely to increase off the back of the letters that will go out today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: My figures state that there was €75 million in warehoused tax liabilities lost due to insolvency last year. Do the witnesses have any idea what the likely figure for this year will be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: On companies that have only recently engaged, do they have a caseworker appointed directly to them? Clearly, there is an issue if somebody has not engaged or they are only picking up the phone or sending an e-mail at this stage. What kind of supports are there for each individual business? How is that structured?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay. Today, or in the coming days, 11,000 customers will receive letters. As a general rule of thumb, what is the rate of return from those letters when they go out? What kind of engagement would Revenue expect?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I specifically want to know the number who have not, to get a view of what is out there as regards people who have not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I have two remaining questions. There is much chat in the media now and two very contrasting and contradictory views, some coming from business representatives and some coming from the trade unions. The trade unions have published a document attempting to bust the myths. There is much talk about the impact of Government policy. The changes are positive and I do not think anyone on either...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Is there any mechanism by which that can be accessed? I say this in the context of a debate - raging might be overstating it - that this is having a detrimental impact. Who should be collecting that information if the Department is not? It should be available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It could be done if you could do it without identifying-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It would be very useful information to have. I will not labour the point. I have one more question, which relates to employee-owned businesses or workers’ co-ops, depending on how you want to phrase it. Right across Europe, the European Union and Britain, EOBs or workers’ co-ops offer a solution to businesses and companies that are in trouble, particularly financial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It is in the context of insolvency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: We do not want Ms Keane to do that, but perhaps she could provide something in writing. It is an area in which I have a particular interest. It is something that works in other jurisdictions both within and outside of the European Union. My party believes there is great scope to expand and develop the capacity in that space. I appreciate the witnesses might not be able to answer it now...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms Keane.

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Who I am hoping is on his way. I will hold the time anyway until my colleague gets here; half of it is mine. I listened with some interest - I know she is not here now - to the Minister of State's backbench colleague absolutely decrying the cut her own Government made to summer provision. The irony of that is not lost on me, nor will it be lost on the parents of kids with special needs in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regulatory Impact Assessments (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 23 April 2024, in terms of the better Government requirements for a regulatory impact assessment to be conducted when transposing an EU Directive, the reason this was not done before S.I. No. 703 of 2022 implementing Article 7.3 of Directive 2014/94/EU was signed into law. [20661/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 250 of 6 March 2024, the expected default rate on State-backed loans of 80%; how such a rate is calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20289/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (8 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 174. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current rate of basic level digital intensity of Irish SMEs. [20428/24]