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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It will be just that the leave is to be taken. Can I ask about the list, which I do not have in front of me because I left it upstairs? Is it the case that the list that contains the reasons is a non-exhaustive list, that is just an example and that it is not intended to be for any of these reasons?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That is okay. With regard to the normal daily rate of pay, and this is something we had considered at the Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the question is always about whether premiums are included and about what constitutes a normal rate of pay. I am assuming it will be similar to how one would calculate a bank holiday entitlement, which is on a pro ratabasis, and that it...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Unless it is confirmation from the Minister and Government that every person who takes unpaid leave for any reason is in fact replaced in the civil and public service. They are not.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: They are really not. Anyone who deals with the public service, as the Minister does, knows they are not. It is not a matter of routine that they are replaced.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I join the Deputy in urging the Government to take action on this as quickly as possible. It is not all vessels and it is not all employers. Where it happens, however, it is awful. We have people working 17 hours a day in unconscionably awful conditions. They are extremely vulnerable. These are migrant workers. It is already tough for workers who work on land and who might have...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: We need to move quickly on this. As the Tánaiste stated, trade union density is at a low level and that means protection for workers is at a low level because the two things are interlinked. An issue that is not expressly related to this but on which the Tánaiste and I have corresponded previously is that agencies that are funded by the Government are also ignoring Labour Court...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if preparatory work has begun to incorporate into legislation the recommendations on collective bargaining made by the high-level group on collective bargaining and industrial relations. [53895/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The Tánaiste will have received the recommendations made by the high-level group on collective bargaining and industrial relations. Has preparatory work begun to incorporate these recommendations into legislation given that, as we know, the European Council has given the green light to the EU directive on adequate minimum wages and collective bargaining on 4 October?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to join with the Tánaiste in thanking the members of the group. I want to particularly thank Patricia King, the outgoing general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, a former colleague and, indeed, a very good friend of mine. I wish her well in her retirement. I also wish Owen Reidy, the incoming general secretary, well. He has much work to do. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline his Department's position on EU legislative proposal COM (2022) 71 on due diligence and corporate sustainability. [53894/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The question relates to the corporate sustainability due diligence COM (2022) 71. It is an extremely important proposal, which I believe we need to get right. From the hearings we have had and the small piece of research into this that I have done I believe there is a real opportunity for us to get this right and make a difference.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State. It was promised that this directive on corporate sustainability due diligence would ensure that EU companies undertook due diligence and checks along their full supply lines to prevent environmental abuses and human rights violations. The aims behind the directive were welcomed by progressive politicians, trade unionists, environmental groups and human rights...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Human rights abuses are never appropriate and no company is immune to engaging in them regardless of its size. Sorcha Tunney, the co-ordinator for the Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights, stated recently "We need to take forced labour, deforestation and oil spills out of our shopping baskets once and for all, but this proposal just doesn't go far enough and is riddled with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: European Social Charter (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 42. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that his Department has taken to address the issues raised in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission report to the Council of Europe regarding the State's lack of implementation of the European Social Charter. [53833/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Living Wage (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 51. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the living wage recommendation proposed by the Living Wage Technical Group. [53831/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that his Department is taking to ensure that there is oversight in relation to the use of algorithmic control to ensure that automated decision-making without any human involvement is not taking place in this State, particularly in the so-called gig-economy. [53834/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the changes that are being made to the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2021. [53832/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance if Approved Housing Bodies are eligible to apply for support under the temporary business energy support scheme. [54047/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 192. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive their passport card which was applied for several months ago. [53956/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the contribution provided for final-year trainee educational psychologists this year will be put on a permanent footing for all final-year students; and if it is her Department's intention to make State contributions to trainee educational psychologists contingent on said students committing to working for a fixed term for her Department or...