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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sure the Minister could sing it if he had an ear to it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Maybe another day.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: My question is fairly straightforward. I am looking for the Minister's views on the report by the European Committee of Social Rights, ECSR, which found that the Government is in breach of several aspects of the European Social Charter. That is an important report. We should not be lagging behind on this or seeing this. I am interested in the Minister's views on what was found.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The committee found that we are in breach in several areas, including to the right to organise and the promotion of collective bargaining, which are breached by Ireland's failure to enact laws ensuring that workers cannot be dismissed for trade union involvement or activity. That is an important protection which does not exist. There is also ban on strikes by members of the Defence Forces...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The committee honed in on the lack of protection for trade union activity. I understand, not because of anyone sitting opposite but because we will be compelled by the European Union, that we will bring in legal protections for union organising and representation. Currently, without the protection from discrimination for trade union activity, it is impeding on workers' capacity to organise....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Affiliation.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Can I respond to that briefly? I am referring to the report that was published and the fact that the right to strike was mentioned in it. I appreciate that. I looked only for affiliation when I spoke to the Minister, as he will know. I have long association with both those organisations and understand exactly what they want.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Relations Commission (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: In advance of doing any of this, the Minister of State could choose only to spend taxpayers' money where workers' rights are respected and only do business with those companies that respect the SEOs, employment regulation orders, EROs, and registered employment agreements, REAs. These agreements show not only the power of trade unions, but they ensure better pay and conditions for workers...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Disputes (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 69. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has made contact with the new owners of a food retailer (details supplied); if he has managed to receive any clarity for workers in terms of wages owed and the future operations of the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22019/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Disputes (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: This is a specific question with regard to an ongoing dispute with Iceland. The workers are owed wages and they are very nervous and anxious about the future operation of the company and specifically the future for their own earnings and jobs.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Disputes (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I am familiar, as the Minister of State is, with the European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003, TUPE. We know them and the workers have had to appraise themselves of their entitlements under the regulations. Regrettably, the new employer in this instance seems blissfully unaware of its obligations under TUPE and it is for that reason we have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Disputes (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I ask that at the meeting, the Minister of State would encourage the employer in this instance to go in the direction of the WRC. The Minister of State is right, in that the WRC and the Labour Court have a very clear role here. However, they have no role if the employer does not turn up. One can take a section 20 and it will be binding on the person who takes it, but not on the person who...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Relations Commission (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on expanding the powers of the Workplace Relations Commission to police compliance with sectoral employment orders, employment regulation orders and registered employment agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22056/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Relations Commission (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The question is to ask the Minister for his views on expanding the powers of the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, to police compliance with sectoral employment orders, SEOs, employment regulation orders, EROs, and registered employment agreements, REAs.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Relations Commission (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: A total of €20 million in withheld wages has been recouped through the WRC since 2011. I will take this opportunity to say that if it could do that with the limited resources it has had, imagine what it could do if the Minister of State improved resources and increased the number of inspectors to the number agreed in 2006. We all support SEOs, EROs and REAs, but time and again...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Inflation Rate (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 55. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the view expressed by European and international agencies and organisations that corporate profiteering is a real and significant contributor to inflation; and if he has plans to tackle price gouging in food products. [22055/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Inflation Rate (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: My question is fairly straightforward. It is to ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the view expressed by European and international agencies and organisations that corporate profiteering is a real and significant contributor to inflation and if there are any plans to tackle price gouging in food products.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Inflation Rate (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister mentioned wages. It is worth bearing in mind that while corporate profits might be ripping away, wages are not. In real terms, according to Unite Investigates, a division of the Unite trade union, wages are falling by an average of €76 weekly. We can see this from the perspective of consumers who are seeing their wages falling by an average of €76 while also...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Inflation Rate (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Is the strong message being sent by the Government that it is not happy? I am not being funny, but is that the strong message the Government is sending? That is what the Minister said. He said the Government had sent a strong message and that it is not happy. Could the message not be something like the Government is going to demand transparency? Could it not be that, if the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Exports Growth (11 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 88. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the priority areas for his Department to increase the number of small and medium enterprises that export, with specific attention given to SMEs exporting to continental Europe and North America.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22020/23]