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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: We would all like to see those commitments being implemented. However, it strikes me that when we meet businesses here and in our own constituencies, housing and the capacity for people to be able to afford housing, in the midst of a housing crisis that has been going on for quite some time, is a factor. I spoke recently to a small business owner who was considering trying to buy or build a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms Fitzpatrick. It is just over 12 months since the former Minister of State, Deputy Troy, granted confidentiality to big tech companies before a meeting to discuss the Commission's Digital Markets Act, which as we know seeks to rein in big tech companies that have created monopolies in the digital space, as well as the Digital Service Act, which we hope will create a safer digital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Bypassing the 30-day consultation period and only informing the Tánaiste at the last minute about a collective redundancy, when it was already public knowledge, is not a good way for any company to behave in a global, national or local context. I do not accept that because these were global announcements, they somehow get to bypass that period. They behaved in an absolutely disgraceful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Let us hope it does not become standard practice. To follow on from that, I appreciate that this involves a small number of companies and I am not for one moment suggesting it is the norm or that anyone in this room wants it to become the norm. It is not the norm and it should not become the norm. I fully appreciate that but there is a certain level of volatility in the tech sector. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Is Ms Buckley saying there would be no hostility to trade union recognition and the collective bargaining legislation that is coming, and that it would not necessarily be a factor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: In Ms Buckley's opening statement, she said IDA Ireland will do all it can to match the employees who are being laid off with the extensive employment opportunities that still exist across the economy. I am just looking for some information on how that works. Does it happen only with IDA Ireland client companies, or is it a matter on which IDA Ireland engages more broadly? Not all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I am conscious that 140 people from a social media platform were laid off. I will not name it but we all know which one we are talking about. I will use that as an example. Has IDA Ireland spoken directly to any of the workers? Has there been any direct engagement or will that happen through the Department? How will that happen? We are talking about 140 people with specific sets of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: So Solas has already engaged with these people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: While that is the aspiration, I am not convinced that is happening in respect of the 140 people who have lost their jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: In IBEC's statement, it refers to the need for a strong, stable and coherent regulatory framework and an agile and workable regulatory framework is obviously important. In its statement, IBEC said that the State sometimes leads and sometimes follows. Can the witnesses from IBEC elaborate on this? In particular, could they focus on the need for greater cohesion between Departments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It was about the need for cohesion between Departments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That is very high-level stuff. At a more practical level, does IDA Ireland send personnel into the relevant companies? Does it wait for people to approach it? When it is working with the Department, what is the process? We all accept there should be co-operation and that workers should be matched up with employers where jobs exist, but how does it work in practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Who is engaging with the individuals involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand that. Has this been done with regard to the high-profile lay-offs?

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: For a social protection system to work, it must meet the needs of people, which means it must deliver social welfare rates that are adequate and protect those who rely on social welfare from poverty. There are close to 40 different social welfare payments. Our social protection system is wide and varied and, in all likelihood, everyone in the State will receive some form of social welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Correspondence (22 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 158. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has received correspondence on alleged food fraud by a company (details supplied) that has received at least €100,000 in Enterprise Ireland grants, and in which EI may hold a 9.7% equity stake, according to a credit-safe report of March 2020; the measures that his Department has taken concerning this...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (22 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current staffing levels in IDA Ireland; and the offices, either head office or regional offices, in which these staff are located, in tabular form. [57983/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (22 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current staffing levels at the local enterprise offices; and the offices in which these staff are located, in tabular form. [57984/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (22 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a detailed report on the service-level agreement between Enterprise Ireland and the local authorities under which local enterprise office staff are employed. [57985/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (22 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 162. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which local enterprise office staff are remunerated; and if they are remunerated by his Department, Enterprise Ireland or local authorities. [57986/22]