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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason previous commitments made by the Government on workers’ rights issues are not being honoured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22002/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Government made commitments on introducing the living wage, on enhancing paid sick leave entitlements, on abolishing the subminimum rates of youth pay, on increasing the minimum annual remuneration for employment permits and on pension auto-enrolment. The Government has reneged on all of these progressive measures. I know the Minister will say that these are just delayed but the word...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What I wanted was a firm commitment that the onslaught on ordinary workers would be ended. The Minister of State has not provided me with that. Workers on the minimum wage are looking forward to the living wage, as was committed to. When they hear, in the past week, a wage of €430,000 talked about for a housing tsar to replace the housing Minister, it just does not sit right with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Going after workers in these sectors will not address our international competitiveness, nor will it help sectors on the front line to deal with the impact of tariffs. All it will do is leave ordinary workers worse off in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. We have one of the highest rates of low pay in the EU, with one in five workers being low paid. This figure has remained relatively...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Losses (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The threat to jobs in Intel and the job losses in TikTok come on the back of job cuts in Meta. There are reports of 300 jobs at risk at Carelon Global Solutions Ireland in Limerick. This company, as the Minister will know, provides digital integrated solutions for the healthcare industry. It has talked about its decision to consider its future in Ireland, which comes after a review of its...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Losses (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There is a real urgency around this. The Minister did not address Carelon Global Solutions and what is being done there. I take it he is in there, talking to staff, and that he has SkillNet Ireland in there as well to work with these companies and to examine available alternatives in the immediate term. The question the Government must answer is where the next decade of jobs is coming...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Losses (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the steps he is taking to protect jobs in the technological sector; if an audit of job security across the sector has been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22001/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Losses (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wrote to the Minister in March following the announcement of 300 job losses in TikTok to ask whether he would commission an audit of job volatility in the technological sector. As it stands today, almost 5,000 staff at Intel are in limbo following the company's announcement of global cuts of 20% to its workforce. I hope, like the Minister, that all of those jobs will be retained. Has he...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Cross-Border Co-operation (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 43. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on any new all island enterprise initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21681/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to consider including supports for businesses to undertake research and development, to enhance innovation and competitiveness, in his action plan on competitiveness and productivity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21685/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Schemes (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the review of the rural social scheme, and when the remaining recommendations of the report will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14518/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 206. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the increased cost of business grant scheme and the Power Up grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22003/25]

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Today, the Minister of State is presenting the national planning framework and it is the blueprint for how the State will manage strategic planning and sustainable development out to 2040. It is essential that the framework deals strategically and systematically with the major issues of our time: housing, climate change, energy security and the prosperity of everyone living on the island....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Artificial Intelligence (29 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 20. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the AI Action Summit. [17317/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Artificial Intelligence (29 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Central Statistics Office data shows that in 2023, AI was used by 8% of Irish enterprises with ten or more employees. The benefits of AI are well-rehearsed and no doubt it will revolutionise the way in which businesses operate in this country and in the global market. It is a very exciting time of innovation but it also carries risks and it has the potential to significantly impact both...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Did the Cabinet sign off on the €430,000 salary associated with the strategic housing activation office today? People in County Mayo and across the country who cannot access housing or who are paying exorbitant rates want to know that. This is almost €500,000 in salary for a role that should not be necessary if the Government stuck to its housing projections and implemented...

Children’s Health (Ospidéal Náisiúnta Kathleen Lynn do Leanaí) (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (29 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As a Mayo TD, I wholeheartedly endorse naming the new children's hospital "Ospidéal Náisiúnta Kathleen Lynn do Leanaí". Imagine what it took for a woman to become a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons back in 1909. Kathleen Lynn was a republican, a pioneer, a feminist and, above all, a Mayo woman and a Killala woman. She is a huge personal inspiration to me and many...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [17316/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether persons who commenced their rebuild prior to the introduction of the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme on 23 October 2024 will be eligible to receive the increased amount of redress; what they need to do to apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20120/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (29 Apr 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm if it is possible for self-employed workers to increase their PRSI contributions to allow them to avail of social welfare entitlements, such as illness benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19941/25]