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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created in the manufacturing sector in each of the years 2018 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1734/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consumer Rights (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 317. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that company cars are generally leased on long-term leases meaning that persons with such cars are tied into long-term leases which they cannot readily terminate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63878/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 327. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that liquid petroleum gas has been excluded from the temporary business energy support scheme. [1068/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 370. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects the Primary Medical Certificates Appeals Board to be reconstituted and begin hearing appeals; his plans to address the backlog in appeals made to the Primary Medical Certificates Appeals Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2076/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that retained firefighters in Balbriggan and Skerries have been excluded from the pandemic bonus payment; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that they attended to Covid and medical calls during the pandemic (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 560. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the commitment in Housing for All on the reform of a scheme (details supplied); and if he plans to implement a scheme that will standardise such rental payments across the State. [1664/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 831. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an outline of the options available to a person (details supplied). [63159/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 973. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has plans to help support parents, especially single-parent households, with the significant deposits required in order to enrol children in playschools and day care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1023/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 1093. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has any plans to establish a statutory compensation scheme for prison officers similar to the compensation scheme that is in place for members of An Garda Síochána who sustain personal injuries in the performance of their duties which helps affected gardaí get support for their recovery and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 1160. To ask the Minister for Health when staff at a facility (details supplied) will receive their pandemic bonus payment. [63157/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 1892. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the next round of Pobal community centres investment fund grants will be open; and if it will be open to non-community centres, specifically GAA clubs. [63183/22]

Defects in Apartments - Working Group to Examine Defects in Housing Report: Statements (15 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I pay tribute to the men and women in the Construction Defects Alliance, the mica campaigners, the pyrite campaigners, and all the people who have had the courage to come forward and speak out. It is really tough for them. There are 100,000 homes impacted by this, including a number of estates in my area. I am not going to name them, not because their names are not in the public domain -...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Four Day Week (15 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the success of the four-day week research project carried out by an organisation (details supplied), University College Dublin and Boston College; and if his Department will provide additional funding for further research in other sectors of the economy to get a holistic understanding of the financial,...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The proposed changes to the appointment process for ordinary members and an interim chairperson of An Bord Pleanála are of significant concern. Sinn Féin totally opposes them. The Minister is seeking to centralise the power of appointment in a way that will further undermine the independence of the board. Although we will not agree on much, we can all agree that confidence in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Enterprise Digital Advisory Board to be established to support enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence will oversee the rights of workers and customers which are being developed within the European Union, in particular, in the Artificial Intelligence Act and the proposed Platform Workers Directive; if his attention has...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Enterprise Digital Advisory Board to be established to support enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence is not to oversee the rights of workers and customers which are being developed within the European Union, in particular, in the Artificial Intelligence Act and the proposed Platform Workers Directive, if this will...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has concerns that an overly business-focused national AI strategy will struggle to build trust in new artificial intelligence technologies amongst those who are currently seeing these technologies begin to monitor and manage their work. [62413/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for being here and for the information they have provided. I am a massive fan of co-ops, specifically workers' co-ops. I have some small experience in working with, though not in, a workers' co-op. They are the foundation for and a fundamental part of a functioning economy that gives back to society and delivers for the workers. Co-ops can be a real force for good in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I think that is highly regrettable and as this Bill progresses, I intend to table amendments to facilitate this. Can we get information in relation how many co-ops were supported by the CDU and how that worked when they came through? I have some personal experience of the CDU. I understood it to be both supportive and important in getting these co-ops started. This legislation is...