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- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: I am sure people will appreciate quick answers. By way of example, I was recently speaking to someone who had their bills estimated. At the end, therefore, because no one obviously went out during Covid-19, when it was possible to submit a reading, the resulting charge came as one bill rather than a whole series. This made it very difficult for this person to engage with the forms. The...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: It is not metered.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: Regarding the underspend for the IDA and Enterprise Ireland, was there a specific reason for this underspending of about 18% and 23%, respectively, in these agencies' capital allocations last year, which was up from 2020? Obviously, the Minister and the agencies must be careful about investments, but what is driving the fact that they are underspending?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: Okay.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: Right.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: This is in the first-----
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: That will be spent.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: Yes, that would be helpful. I thank the Minister.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: That is fantastic. The number of inspectors should be stepped up to keep pace with the number of people in work. This would seem pretty logical to me but it does not happen unfortunately. It is something that should happen. If we think back to 2006 when the figure was 90, there are lot more people in work now. I fully appreciate all that happened between 2006 and now.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: I appreciate that. This is an issue I raised with the Minister's predecessor, so we would welcome progress on this and I understand that the Minister is not overpromising. Turning to page 56 of the overview, this refers to the retail sector and highlights its importance to the economy, which is welcome. Unfortunately, though, we know this sector has suffered several body blows during the...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (9 Feb 2023) Louise O'Reilly: It is just to know that in order to get to having 90 inspectors, recruitment will have to be in excess of the number of retirements and then some.
- Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)
Louise O'Reilly: I commend my colleague, an Teachta Doherty, on his work on this matter and on tabling the motion so that we can have this important debate. There have been five hikes in the past seven months, with another on the way. That is more than many families are able to take. Under pressure from Sinn Féin, the Government moved to provide a modicum of relief for renters. This was an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Work Councils and Legislative Provisions for Dispute Procedures: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
Louise O'Reilly: My colleague might take his time all together and I will take mine. I ask our guests to what extent they believe the lack of collective bargaining rights for workers in this State has had a role in attracting companies to establish the legal basis of their EWC in Ireland, most especially those that have moved from Britain to Ireland post Brexit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Work Councils and Legislative Provisions for Dispute Procedures: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
Louise O'Reilly: That is a nice way of putting it. I might choose other words but I will not do so today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Work Councils and Legislative Provisions for Dispute Procedures: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
Louise O'Reilly: I ask Mr. Sack to elaborate further on the enforcement of subsidiarity requirements and other obligations through criminal enforcement by the WRC, including the difficulties that this causes in regards to proving a breach. I have already said I am a former trade union official, as is my colleague, Senator Gavan, and that is quite a high bar that has been set. I ask Mr. Sack how this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Work Councils and Legislative Provisions for Dispute Procedures: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
Louise O'Reilly: It is still being bedded in and we are a little bit further behind than others. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Work Councils and Legislative Provisions for Dispute Procedures: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)
Louise O'Reilly: I do not see how that scenario could arise with the WRC given its resources. Anyone waiting to have a case heard will know that resources are very stretched. It would be hard, notwithstanding the merit of the claim, to see that the WRC would plough a large amount of resources into taking such a case for that reason. I have some questions for Dr. Lavelle. How unusual is it for the normal...