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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It is a little bit like AI itself.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I commend the Deputies on moving this motion this morning. Indeed, it is a mirror of motions we have discussed here many times. As the Minister will know, we discuss motions with similar wording year after year. This entails the same plea from the Opposition falling, it would appear, on the Government's deaf ears. There is very little evidence of a zero-tolerance approach. We can all...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (11 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will commit to supporting a campaign (details supplied) and its six asks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30132/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (11 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Respect at Work is a civil society campaign aimed at improving workers' rights in Ireland. Will the Minister of State commit to supporting this campaign and, specifically, its six legislative asks?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (11 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: People are being discriminated against and they are being dismissed because of trade union activity. The simple fact is that if they were not, the Respect at Work campaign would not have come into being. While I completely understand the Minister of State's position with regard to the length of time this is going to take, it is open to the Government to act now. I asked a fairly simple...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (11 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I will take that as a "No" for the moment. I am sure the Minister of State is aware that one in five workers in Ireland, over 420,000 people, are classified as low paid. More than 345,000 workers earn less than the living wage. Workers here work longer hours and have fewer days off than the European Union average. Last year, the WRC found that employment law was broken in every second...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (11 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the proposed decision of a company to transfer its manufacturing activities from its site in Balbriggan to Britain by the end of December 2024; if he will engage with workers and the community regarding the matter; and the measures that can be taken to stimulate the creation of good jobs in Balbriggan. [30127/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (11 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I previously raised the situation at the Wavin Ireland factory in Balbriggan with the Minister. At the time, in committee, I indicated my intention to raise it on the floor of the Dáil. I would appreciate if he would focus specifically on the steps and measures that can be taken to stimulate the creation of good jobs in Balbriggan. We are sorry to see the jobs go at Wavin Ireland. We...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Creation (11 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and for the note he sent me outlining his plan to engage with all the relevant parties to ensure the workers are given support and training. He indicated that IDA Ireland will prioritise securing replacement employment in the area. There is serious untapped potential in Balbriggan. There are people in the town who can and should be able to work...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister of State said this is complicated, but it is not. It is very simple. It is equal pay for work of equal value. Yesterday, representatives from Mandate Trade Union appeared before the committee and I asked whether its members who are paid 70%, 80% or 90% of the rate are, in fact, doing 70%, 80% or 90% of the work. The fact is that they are not; they are doing 100% of the work....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our witnesses for their contributions. We had a private session beforehand in which we considered the elements of the National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022. It was mentioned, and I think it bears being repeated in public, that much of the discussion we are having now about this subject directly mirrors that same kind of discussion that was had about equal pay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Are they subject to the same disciplinary procedures, codes of conduct, codes of practice, etc? Is it the case that there is no derogation for them in this regard and they do not get 90% of a penalty or have 80% or 90% of the rules applied to them? Is it the case that they are subject to 100% of the rules, 100% of the expectations concerning the work and 100% of the hours for 80% of the wages?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay. My understanding is that these rates of pay are prevalent in areas and employment where there are low levels of union membership density. Is this correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Is Ms McCabe saying that before there was an increase in the cost of doing business, ISME would have been supportive of this proposed legislation? Has it only been since the advent of the increased cost of doing business that this opposition has emerged or am I wrong on this point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I think that is a bit of a stretch, to be honest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: No, I am absolutely sticking to the facts, but I do think it is a bit of a stretch to take statistics from a sector and then automatically associate them with the number of youth workers employed in the sector. I ask Dr. Redmond to comment on this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: If there are no restrictions in operation - say, where the business does not open past 10 o’clock and does not sell alcohol - would Mr. McDonnell accept that the younger people are doing the same type of work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry; I have to go, a Chathaoirligh. People get inducted at every age. A person could be out of the workforce for a long time and come back to do an induction at the age of 50. I am just not sure that argument cuts it. I am eating into my colleagues’ time, however. I have to go and speak in the Dáil Chamber, but I hope to come back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: There is obviously a correlation, then, between joining your trade union and improving your rate of pay, which I suppose bears repeating here. Turning to our representatives from ISME, and concerning the report of the Low Pay Commission, there is a reference on page 35 - this is a subject we have discussed before and I am not going to bounce the witnesses into addressing a quote or...