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- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the clarification. I thank the Minister for that. He sees the purpose of the amendments. This levy should not be a revenue generator in that way. Funds should be ring-fenced for the express work of the regulation and applied only to the hosting and intermediary services. I thank the Minister for that clarification.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 4: In page 7, line 5, to delete “person” and substitute “online service, intermediary service provider and/or hosting service provider”.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 5: In page 7, line 6, to delete “person” and substitute “online service, intermediary service provider and/or hosting service provider”.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 6: In page 7, line 8, to delete “A person” and substitute “An online service, intermediary service provider and/or hosting service provider”.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 7: In page 7, line 10, to delete “his or her” and substitute “their”.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 8: In page 7, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(5) Nothing in this Act shall allow for the collection of levies from an individual.”.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 9: In page 7, between lines 33 and 34, 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.”.
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: 157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the new IT system to allow workers employed using the work permit system to a change of employer will be in place. [27084/24]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: They cannot use it on this scheme.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: A price of €400,000 is not affordable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I thank our guests. I will jump straight in. We often talk about the four Ds, namely, demographics, decarbonisation, digitisation and deglobalisation. They are key trends that are likely to transform the economy over the next decade. Based on the figures, as it stands, only 66% of SMEs have a basic level of digital intensity, according to the DESI, as Ms Carberry referenced. That has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Yes. It is the figure of nearly 20% that threw me. It is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms Carberry for that because it was one of those figures that jumped out. I see her colleagues nodding. It is good to hear that explanation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I can imagine. My next question relates to AI, the cloud and big data. We know that the national AI strategy refers to all those things as being here for good, and fingers crossed for that. We know that big data, AI, analytics, the cloud and so on are essential technologies which will be key drivers for productivity and innovation and will enable us, exactly as Ms Carberry said, to be on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: That is fine. I am just curious to know if there will be a specific focus on SMEs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: It is not that we think that bigger companies will just manage on their own; they will not. However, they have a lot more resources, so that partnership with IBEC will be the one that will drive the focus for SMEs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: The organisations like that are interested. I know ISME, Family Business Network Ireland, the Irish Exporters Association, all those groups-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Exactly. They are all interested. I think they are interested, concerned and curious. They do not want their competitors getting ahead of them but, equally, they want to keep doing what they are doing and do not want to be branching out to do something new that might be beneficial but also could be costly.