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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 1118. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the situation whereby nursing home residents in private nursing homes who are medical card holders were wrongly charged for nursing home care; the steps that the family of a deceased nursing home resident who died in 2002 can take to establish if their parent and family members were wrongly charged for this care; if he can provide details...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (13 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 1160. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people with lung injuries and all other injuries arising from e-cigarettes treated by the health service in 2022 and to date in 2023; the location of this treatment that is, primary or secondary care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27534/23]

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I am grateful for the opportunity to make a contribution. This is important legislation. It is a topic on which Sinn Féin has been active for a long time, as the Minister of State will be aware. With that in mind, I will mention my colleagues Deputies Ward, Mitchell and Martin Kenny, who brought forward the Coercion of a Minor (Misuse of Drugs Amendment) Bill 2022. That Bill was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms O'Dea for her very good explanation. It is useful. She spoke about raising awareness. Nobody thinks about redundancy until they get a notification. They just do not. We hear about it happening to other people and we do not think about it. Many people are unaware of their rights. I know of many situations - I am sure Ms O'Dea does too - in which people walk away from their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I am conscious that there is a balancing that has to go on. I fully appreciate that many of those suppliers would be sole traders. They are not facing redundancy but when you lose your job, you lose your job. The badge you put on it is not much consolation. I understand that, but on the flip side, in any agreement between a worker and an employer, there will always be compromise. To get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, but that does not really matter. There is a collective agreement, workers have gone through the process and balloted on it. They get held to every line of it, including the compromise parts, in the run-up to a redundancy but I appreciate the point Ms O'Dea makes. I have a question relating to the fines, some of which are quite small. There is a fine of €5,000 for a failure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It does indeed. Thanks. My final question is on the employment law review group, ELRG, which the Department has cited as being a significant and valuable resource for ongoing assessment and so on, which is very good. Putting the ELRG on a statutory footing is also very good. How are people going to be appointed to the ELRG? Will they come through the social partners? Will it be possible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: That is excellent. The inclusion of practitioners is very welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I have raised the issue of the composition already. Is there an objection to putting down in law how the nomination process for the ELRG is going to work? I respect what the witnesses are saying about the likely outcome and that there will be a balance of workers, employers, academics, experts and all that. Just to be belt, braces and baler twine about it, would it not be better to lay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to briefly touch on limited liability. I do not want to go too far into it. We all know that when it is not abused it is grand, but sometimes there can be an attempt to evade responsibility and hide behind the cloak of limited liability. Are the witnesses happy that this has struck that balance? I see in their submission an explanation of what limited liability does, namely,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The witnesses reference the need for the information to be made available in plain English. Simple and accessible language is really important but it also needs to be available in plain Polish, plain Arabic, plain French and plain Spanish. That is really important when circulating the information campaign. If English is not someone's first language, it might be even more important that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for attending and for their work on this. It is a complicated area but it is also very necessary. In the opening submission, the Department explicitly stated it is not in respect of any one previous company insolvency. I understand that, but it is helpful to think about this in terms of what we know has happened. Certain high-profile cases, such as those involving...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a breakdown for the current and capital budget allocations for the Skills for Better Business Initiative of the Revised Estimates for 2023; the number of staff required to support the delivery of the initiative; the current pay scale of the staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26443/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 49. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a breakdown for the current and capital budget allocations for the Digital Start Initiative of the Revised Estimates for 2023; the number of staff required to support the delivery of the initiative; the pay scale of the staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26444/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 50. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a breakdown for the current and capital budget allocations for the Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher Scheme of the Revised Estimates for 2023; the number of staff required to support the operation of the scheme; the pay scale of the staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26445/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 51. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a breakdown for the current and capital budget allocations for the Enterprise Ireland National Graduate Programme 2023-2025 of the Revised Estimates for 2023; the number of staff required to support the operation of the programme; the pay scale of the staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26446/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Climate Change Policy (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 52. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a breakdown for the current and capital budget allocations for the Climate Toolkit4Business of the Revised Estimates for 2023; the number of staff required to support the operation of the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26447/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Schemes (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the list of current schemes and programmes to support workers with disabilities at the workplace; the steps his Department is taking to support workers with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26448/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he intends to accredit independent assurance services providers to carry out the assurance of sustainability reporting, alongside statutory auditors and audit firms, as part of the transposition of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive into Irish law; if he intends to advocate for other states to accredit independent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (31 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown for the current and capital budget allocations for the Apprenticeship Employer Grant of the Revised Estimates for 2023; if there are plans to increase the grant amount; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26449/23]