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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...

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

Louise O'Reilly: There was no PLS conducted on this section of that Bill. The PLS was on an entirely different piece of legislation. That is the point I was making. If it was any way unclear, I apologise, but I thought it was a fairly simple and straightforward point. The PLS and the report that arose from it was on a completely different piece of legislation. I am not disputing that PLS took place in...

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

Louise O'Reilly: That last sentence on whether a worker is not doing their full duties worried me a bit. If a worker is not carrying out their full duties, believe me, there are plenty of polices, procedures and everything else that can ensure they do. I do not see the need to put that into this legislation, to be frank. The reason we are here discussing this is that despite having nearly two and a half...

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

Louise O'Reilly: That is okay.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I note that four weeks are allowed for a worker to appeal in instances where this is being denied them. Flexibility is being given to an employer to make arrangements for a worker coming back so there is more time allowed there. There is mention in this of the WRC and the Labour Court. Is it the intention that the move to which the worker is objecting will take place, obviously under...

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

Louise O'Reilly: I just want to formally record that I think it is a bit unfair that flexibility is being given on the employer's end and that they will have time that a worker might not get back. They are getting an extension to that four weeks but the same is not being offered to workers. We all know it is going to take months and not weeks to get to the WRC.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I have a question for the Minister on this. Is it intended that the code of practice be developed by his Department or by the Labour Employer Economic Forum, LEEF? Will his Department be attending the LEEF or how is that going to work?

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

Louise O'Reilly: May I say a word on it?

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

Louise O'Reilly: I will be very brief. I have asked the Minister, probably six times at this stage, if he can please explain how this is going to operate in practice in the civil and public service. As he is well aware, workers in the higher education sector will be entitled to ten days of leave. Ten days is the international norm. It is what has been negotiated by trade unions. Ten days is what Women's...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister being open to amending this legislation. Without meaning to point fingers, or anything like that, this may be some acknowledgement that a bit more time is going to be needed to get this right. I am minded to recall what was said earlier regarding Stephen Teap and Lorraine Walsh. They have said that this legislation does not pass what was referred to as the Vicky...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to contribute. It is good that we are debating this Bill and that we have reached this point. It would be a shame if we did not get it right at the last minute. The question we must ask ourselves is whether the Minister's amendments will live up to what Vicky Phelan and other campaigners would have wanted to be part of the legislation....

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Speaking as someone who uses the service, I want to know as a right where there are issues. The Minister might clarify, but my understanding is that, if the anonymous programmatic audit he mentioned had been in place in 2014, Lorraine Walsh, Vicky Phelan and all the others would not have been informed of the discordant slides. We need to remember that this situation came about through...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Should we wait a moment and call them?

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: We cannot call them in that case.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to say a few words. Let us be honest: this debate would not have come about if Sinn Féin had not sought it. It is a pretty sad state of affairs that we had to request a debate on this matter, and on the broader issue of what is being done with this Bill. An amendment is being inserted into the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous...

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Deputies for bringing forward this very timely, and as my colleague has alluded to, very well put together motion. Before I came in, I spoke to the principal of a primary school and she told me that the reality is that they cannot teach children without teachers yet teachers are being exported daily. She told me that without substitute teachers being available, she is constantly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Legislative Proposal on Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I have one question for each delegation starting with the institute. We will have heard from the negotiations that the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, protected or attempted to protect many aspects of this law from being watered down, which is the opposite to the role that we played in the run up to this. I commend the Minister of State on that even though his efforts were somewhat in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Legislative Proposal on Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Who does the Law Society believe the competent authority will be and, more importantly, who does the Law Society think it should be? Should the oversight be annexed into an existing agency? Will it be necessary to establish a stand-alone agency? I am not asking Mr. Linehan to appoint someone here but does he have a view on the best place for the authority to be situated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Legislative Proposal on Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That is the concern. It may be an entirely separate entity that starts from scratch and is built up. That may be the way it has to go but unless it is properly resourced, it will be all complaints coming in and no results going out. It would be difficult for any existing agency to take on that workload without considerable investment in personnel, resources, education and training and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Legislative Proposal on Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses. First, I wish to apologise as I will have to leave shortly to avail of a speaking slot in the Dáil Chamber but I will catch up by reading the transcript afterwards. I have read both of the statements and listened to them. Ms Spillane outlined in her statement that environmental, sustainability and corporate governance is not just about targets and legislation...