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Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Therefore, is Mr. Duggan saying it is the employers that are causing the delay or that business was not ready?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: And those have all slipped by along with the official one. Given that several deadlines have slipped past, is the Department confident it will be ready for the latest announced deadline?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Was the September date announced without any consultation with business? I wonder how that could have happened if they are so adamant now that they are not ready for it. The Department pressed ahead with a date in September and now that is being "delayed" again. I hope Mr. Duggan does not mind if I describe it in that way. Was there a miscommunication? I have got some details through...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Was this a specific request of industry? Mr. Duggan was lobbied by State Street Global Advisors Europe. The Minister was lobbied by the Irish Association of Pension Funds and the Payroll Software Developers Association and others. At what stage did they start telling Mr. Duggan that they were not ready?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: So they were ready but they wanted a delay anyway.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Duggan was the one in the meeting with them.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Duggan cannot tell me that 130,000 are ready but he can tell me that 130,000 are working on it. There have been a lot of false dawns with auto-enrolment. It strikes me that it has not been well handled. That is not any disrespect to Mr. Duggan and his colleagues, as a lot of it is down to Government decisions. I understand there has only been one official date but a number of...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Were none of those commitments in place for 30 September?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to the Auto-Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme: Department of Social Protection (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: It is just one question.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Cathaoirleach and all of our witnesses for the overview and their pre-budget submissions, which are very interesting and comprehensive. In regard to multi-annual funding and keeping pace with public service wages, will the witnesses speak about the difficulties that presents? It strikes me that the organisations will lose staff to another sector. I do not just mean one that...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Let us take meals on wheels as an example and then consider the school meals provision programme for which multi-annual funding is available. The process is constructed in a way that only massive companies can tender. They do not pay their workers well unlike in the community and voluntary sector. A stream of funding and certainty is available to that sector for private businesses. I have...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I will indeed. The Government has signalled that there will not be any one-off measures. What will the impact of that be on the people the witnesses represent?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I asked a question about cost-of-living measures and I would appreciate an answer to that.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the recent fare changes have resulted in increased costs for passengers living in Skerries and Balbriggan and that this increase in fares is serving to heap further costs on hard pressed commuters in the middle of a cost of living crisis; if he will review this decision and allow Skerries and Balbriggan into the same...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the context of the protection of schoolchildren, all school staff, teachers, support staff and caretakers, and their health and safety, if he is aware of serious harms being caused (and escalating) for several years now by high density, breeding gull colonies in many schools around the country; if she has noted the recent very stark...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out in detail the specific "threats to public health and safety" that underpinned the legal justifications of the derogation for removal of nests and eggs of specified gull species in Balbriggan and its districts each of the years 2017 to 2023 inclusive, including i) such threats as were recognised by successive...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in the context of his Department's advice to his Ministerial predecessor which resulted in the revocation of the Balbriggan derogation (2017-2023, originally granted due to "a threat to public health and safety") for removal of nests and eggs of specified gull species, will the Minister inform the deputy as to whether the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given that he is no doubt aware that the State's Courts have consistently emphasised that protection of the health and safety of citizens is a paramount duty of the State within our legal framework, if he accepts, and if he will ensure, that protection of citizens' health and safety is, therefore, assuredly paramount across...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with reference to the book entitled 'Seabirds Count' a census of breeding seabirds in Britain and Ireland (2015-2021), ISBN 9788416728602, (pub. Nov. 2023), and recurring acknowledgements in that book of the 'Lead Partner' role played by his Department/National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in the conduct of the census...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with reference to the published book entitled 'Seabirds Count' a census of breeding seabirds in Britain and Ireland (2015-2021), which deals with 25 species of seabirds, has the Minister noted that 70+ pages out of 484 pages in the book are given over to the escalating proliferation of high density urban-breeding gull...