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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It is all part of the economic impact assessment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That is fine. Those are all my questions. I thank the Chair and the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I turn to previous recommendations of the Low Pay Commission. It obviously recommended the introduction of the sub-minimum rates. How quickly was that done and how much assessment was done? How much of a delay was there? Deputy Murphy has pointed out that there is a bit of a time lag between the recommendation and any potential action. How fast does it usually happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms Pyke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That is what I am saying. In the intervening time, how many reports - by Indecon or the ESRI, or whoever - were done and how much stakeholder consultation was done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay. That would be important because it seems like a lot of questions have to be asked when the balance is shifting in the other direction. The committee would benefit from having that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Four years as Minister for Health.

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the judgment. In future, I hope the Minister will listen and take heed of what Teachta Doherty is telling him because once again he has been proven right. He was not alone. The Government was warned repeatedly that the inevitable outcome of its challenge would be this money being returned to the State. The reputational damage done by the wrong-headed Government, with the support...

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I commend an Teachta Clare Kerrane on bringing forward this policy and Kathleen Funchion for the work she has done in this area. Access to affordable childcare is a game-changer. I hope the Minister knows that. He certainly has not delivered but an Teachta Kerrane has the plan and the ideas - €10 per day per child. That is exactly what parents need. They need certainty and they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to help grow the Dublin-Belfast economic corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30131/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister will be well aware of the DCU and University of Ulster report that outlined not just the challenges, of which there were loads, but also the potential for the development of the Dublin-Belfast economic corridor. I would welcome an update from him on the work of his own Department in this regard. If I could be a small bit parochial relating to himself and myself, I would be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister. Specifically, I am interested in knowing the work of the Minister's Department. I appreciate his response but a lot of that was focused on how people get out of Fingal by train and other public transport. I would appreciate if he could focus on how people can stay, and specific actions from his Department with regard to growing. What that report identified was huge...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister hit the nail on the head. That is the point I was making. We want people to be able to stay there. The vast majority of people in Balbriggan who are of working age and employed leave. They leave in the morning to go to work. They are not employed locally. There is an issue with underemployment that the Minister will be aware of. Even the report refers to towns like...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: We are steadfast on this.

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to start by offering my condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of Aoife Johnston. I have read sections of the report and your heart would break in half listening to what happened to her parents. It must have been awful. As the report said, the family felt powerless amid all of the chaos of accident and emergency all around them. My grandmother died in accident and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses. It is nice to see an all-woman panel; we very rarely get that joy here in the committee rooms. They are all very welcome. I thank them for the work they are doing and the information they have provided. When we talk about the rising tide, it does not necessarily lift all boats, although it may have lifted most. Even where people are employed, there are issues...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The question is how we find those small initiatives and then scale them. How do we make sure that those initiatives find the people who need to be found, who can very often be lost within the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I am talking about where it can be adapted and where we can find that learning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That is exactly what we are looking for. It is just more information. Specific groups have been identified in both of the witnesses' presentations, namely, Travellers, lone parents and young people experiencing disadvantage. It is about being able to reach those groups. Both of my constituency offices are located close to the Intreo office. As it happens, I am the only TD in my area with...