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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: You are prepared to identify the challenges but you are taking a hands-off approach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That is not-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I have spoken about a high-level intervention, as I implied in my email.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: You know exactly what that means.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: You know exactly what it means.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The shock of receiving a cancer diagnosis is devastating news for patients and their families. It is a time of deep worry and stress. The last thing that patients should have to worry about on top of this is struggling to afford the cost of attending their treatment. In its pre-budget submission, the Irish Cancer Society revealed yesterday that patients are still forced to fork out huge...

Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Deputy Boyd Barrett for bringing this legislation before the Dáil. Workers and families have seen a sharp, sudden and significant increase in their mortgage costs since 2022. Since the European Central Bank first increased its key interest rates in July of that year, average mortgage interest costs have increased by a whopping 70%. For so many, these increases have been...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 111. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of funding issued to businesses under phase 1 of the increased cost of business grant by close of scheme; and the amount which has been paid out, including percentages, by local authority area, in tabular form. [26679/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 112. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of funding issued to businesses under phase 2 of the increased cost of business grant by close of scheme; and the amount which has been paid out, including percentages, by local authority area, in tabular form. [26680/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) is being denied access to July summer provision; the reason a school is not being afforded flexibility in order to provide the child with July summer provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26542/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 30 April 2024, if the planning application for a school (details supplied) has been submitted to Fingal County Council. [26560/24]

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, for bringing forward the motion. It is an important motion that strikes at the heart of the cost-of-living crisis faced by ordinary people. The cost-of-living crisis could more accurately be described as a rip-off crisis. People in Ireland pay two thirds higher than the EU average for electricity, with a typical Irish household paying nearly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: This morning, pilots at Aer Lingus started industrial action in the form of a work-to-rule. As a consequence, Aer Lingus has already cancelled almost 300 flights with more to follow. The impact of the work-to-rule and specifically the ban on overtime is difficult to predict and passengers have been warned that their flights may be cancelled right up to the moment they arrive at the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: With the greatest of respect to the Taoiseach, whatever it was he said on Monday did not work because the industrial action started at one minute past midnight today. As the Minister rightly said, people are facing into a chaotic summer now. They have spent all year working hard, they have spent all this time saving up and they are looking in now. The Minister tells me her heart goes out...

Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, line 14, to delete "person" and substitute "online service, intermediary service provider and/or hosting service provider". The amendments in this group are submitted to ensure and get confirmation that levies cannot be levied on an individual. I am disposed to supporting this legislation, but I am reserving my position depending on the explanation...

Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: There were a lot of words there. Am I right when I say that the individual, in other words, the person as referred to, is an entity but that entity could only be one person? Does the Minister of State see where I am coming from in terms of an individual?

Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: There is a small amount of ambiguity in the wording and that was the reason for the amendments. It was as much to prompt the debate as anything else. If the Minister of State is saying that where there is an individual involved, he or she is regarded as an entity. That makes sense. If that is the clarification, I am happy to accept that.

Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes.

Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Inadvertently. I understand, but that was not the intention of it.

Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "(5) Nothing in this Act shall allow for the collection of levies for any reason other than funding the regulatory work of the Commission and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.". The amendments in this grouping have been submitted to seek clarity that levies can...