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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 have to leave for a few minutes but hopefully I will get back. I think we are missing a trick here if we do not support the smaller social enterprises and workers' co-ops. I think the scope exists within the legislation for us to expand it a little bit and improve on it. I thank the witnesses and I look forward to working with them and the officials in the Department.

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 Mr. Shine for his response. Being mindful of that and that not all co-ops are equal, as it were, there will be some social enterprises, workers' co-ops specifically, that may need extra help to get going. I am mindful that the co-operative development unit, CDU, which was established, no longer exists according to my information. I had some engagement with it and was impressed with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The research was, indeed, interesting. I join the Minister in acknowledging the work of Dr. Collins and Dr. Elliott O'Dare and their teams. The specific aspects I would like to raise with the Minister concern the number of participants who believe the pay they receive is inadequate and the manner in which the living wage will seek to address this. The adequacy of pension income is a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I appreciate, as the Minister does, that older people work for a variety of reasons, but that does not mean they should not be fairly paid for the work they do. The Tánaiste announced the living wage will be benchmarked at 60% rather than 66%. I think it should be 66%. We should have a realistic and credible plan to move in that direction because that is the only way those affected...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the research report entitled, Low Paid Older Workers in Ireland: a Quantitative and Qualitative profile of Low Pay among Workers Aged over 50. (details supplied). [62094/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: All my questions are reasonably straightforward and this one is no different. It refers to a report, Low Paid Older Workers in Ireland: a Quantitative and Qualitative profile of Low Pay among Workers Aged over 50, which makes for fairly stark reading. While they do not relate to all workers aged over 50 years, the report raises concerns. I would welcome the Minister's views on it.

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Tonight I have witnessed some uncomfortable Members on the Government benches and the lads all know what they have to do. They must defend their man or face an election. That is what has brought them in here because there could not be support for the record of this Minister on those benches. It is either that or the Government Deputies do not hold constituency clinics, answer the phone or...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It is your motion.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to research from an organisation (details supplied) that found that 70% of small and medium enterprises in Ireland fear that they may have to close in 2023 due to rising costs. [62095/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: This is a very straightforward question. The question relates to research by Wise Business, a global fintech group, which found that 70% of SMEs in Ireland fear they may have to close in 2023 due to rising costs. Will the Minister outline the supports that are available for businesses and when they will be coming on stream? Has he read this report and are the results of it concerning to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Will the Minister give a definitive date for when the first payment will be made? I am aware that the scheme is open but people are anxious to know when they will get the payments. The survey from Wise Business covered 250 businesses. What they are reporting is worrying. Notwithstanding some positives in the survey, and while I do not wish to focus on the negative, they raise the concern...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: On the expansion of the rate of payments under the TBESS, is the 40% coverage of additional costs as far as the Government can go? I have pushed the Minister of State, Deputy English, a little on this question previously. I ask this because the current difficulties being experienced by Irish businesses, particularly SMEs and family businesses, are fairly significant. They need to know...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Joint Labour Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 94. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or his Department have any plans to strengthen the joint labour committees and employment agreements and orders. [62041/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 108. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a company (details supplied) made him or his Department, aware that it was going to lock staff out of its Dublin office on 18 November 2022. [62046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of delays in the National Transport Authority extending the life of taxis beyond the ten-year age limit for vehicles and the impact this is having on taxi drivers securing a new licence for 2023; if he will engage with the NTA about having the process expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62280/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Company Law (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance the assessment that has been carried out by his Department on a recent European Court of Justice ruling, Judgment of the Court in Joined Cases C-37/20, Luxembourg Business Registers and C-601/20, which seems to call into question the principle of a public register of beneficial ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62338/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 650. To ask the Minister for Health the options that are available for a family to obtain medical records on a deceased relative where the relative was being cared for in a private nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62281/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 657. To ask the Minister for Health the services currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access these services within their communities following a diagnosis; if he will provide an update on discussions between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62335/22]

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It is important to point out, lest anyone think pre-legislative scrutiny, PLS, was done on this, it was not. The PLS was conducted on an entirely different piece of legislation, one which, as we have already discussed, was inherently flawed, exactly as we might expect from this Government. I asked the Minister a specific question in regard to the protections that apply. I take it from...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I think that is very wrong. Protection should be there for people who are remote working. Again, it is that paternalistic, grace and favour arrangement and attitude. The Minister referenced the importance of an employer knowing the worker can access the office. As it stands, an employer does not need to know where a person lives. All they need to know is that the worker turns up. If...