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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Minimum Wage (23 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Trade unions and member-led organisations representing young people have consistently highlighted the manner in which sub-minimum rates of pay can be used to exploit workers. In my previous question, I referred to people working on the shop floor. They will tell you that if additional hours are available, those hours are more likely to go to the person with the shortest service because that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (23 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 70. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has read a report (details supplied); if he has plans to amend the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2018 to ensure where extra hours are available that longer-term workers seeking additional hours are prioritised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9181/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (23 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the new Minister and Ministers of State. It seems perhaps that I am the only consistent Member in the enterprise portfolio.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (23 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome any Member who is here for the first time. My question is straightforward and it relates to the Mandate Trade Union report, Smoke and Mirrors: The Facts About Retail Workers' Incomes in Ireland. Has the Minister any plans to amend the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2018 to ensure where extra hours are available longer-term workers seeking additional hours are prioritised?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (23 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It is clear that while the code of practice was very well-intentioned and is a decent piece of work, it is not working. Mandate is telling us nearly two thirds of retail workers are earning less than €451 per week. That is not even getting within a million miles of anything that would be a living wage. I attended the launch of the report where some of the workers from the shop floor...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (23 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: There is not a massive amount of difference between the Minister of State and me on this. However, the Mandate survey is for unionised workers. As everybody knows, the best bet you have for getting a decent rate of pay is to join your union and be active in it. These are unionised workers. Again, the WRC very often sees unionised workers. If it is bad for workers who are unionised and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Joint Labour Committees (23 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 106. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether the Joint Labour Committee is working effectively; if he has any designs on increasing its powers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9168/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (23 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 108. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the general scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022 makes no provision for the re-establishment of a Co-operative Development Unit given its success in the establishment of co-ops when operational; if he is aware of the work of the Co-operative Development Unit in Scotland, especially its work in the establishment...

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to refer to the amendments put forward by an Teachta Doherty, specifically the one concerning home heating oil. It is not, as some might suggest, a rural-only issue and, in fact, it affects many people in my constituency. Many of them will be scratching their heads when they learn that the Government has accepted, the argument having been won by myself and others, that businesses...

Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Sinn Féin welcomes the changes that have been made to the TBESS by the Government. For several weeks, we have been telling the Government that the TBESS is failing SMEs and microbusinesses, in particular due to the interlinked problems caused by the qualifying threshold being too high and the relief being too low. As a result, SMEs and microbusinesses have struggled to access the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sharing with my colleague.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: As a former trade union organiser who represented workers in the Rehab Group, this is not the first time that group has ignored a Labour Court recommendation. I hope it is the last. I ask our guests from the Rehab Group and the NDA how confident they are that the 2025 minimum target of 6% will be met. Is it ambitious enough? On one hand, you want to set an ambitious target but there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: People can only learn by doing and experience, and be informed by that going forward. I ask Mr. Hannigan first and then our other guests to comment on how a lack of access to appropriate housing and accessible public transport impacts on people with disabilities in gaining and, importantly, staying in employment. If it takes a massive effort to get into work, you might be able to do it on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It is awful to think that there are people who want to be out working but they are stuck in their house and, in some instances, stuck in an inappropriate housing situation. I put the same question to the other witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: There is a Twitter account called Access For All and every morning that group tweets how many lifts are out of service. If we all put ourselves into the mindset of employers we will realise that it is very hard for them, and for other workers. Employers will be constantly thinking that so and so is not in today because a lift is out of order. Access issues are basic and it is incredible to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It is all very well to talk about the future but the lifts are not working today. The infrastructure exists but if people cannot rely on it, disabled people are at a disadvantage. We are discussing the disadvantages that exist. Disabled people are put at a serious disadvantage when they cannot say for certain whether they will be able to turn up for work. I have more questions but I know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I acknowledge that the Twitter account is called Access for All Ireland. I believe I got the name wrong. I thank Sophia and her dad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: No. I actually checked because I did not believe the name was right. I thank Sophia and her dad because they record the information every morning. My heart sinks every morning on seeing the number of lifts out of order. What do people do? If they can go up the stairs, they are grand. If they cannot, they have to ring work again to say they will not be in because they do not have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I have a specific question for Ms Shakespeare on the access and inclusion model. In her opening statement she points to the fact that the model is doing significant work. As children with a disability progress further through the education system, what supports are there, particularly in terms of preparing people with soft and hard skills for future employment? Could Ms Shakespeare also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: We are coming back to the same point all the time. It needs to be a cross-departmental approach. As Deputy Stanton has pointed out, though, when everybody is responsible sometimes nobody is responsible. Therefore we have to have a lead. We have a lead and because of that we end up saying it is not enough to have one person. We would all have to wonder how we can break that kind of cycle....