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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Does it intend to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: What is the current turnaround time for voids or casual lets, or whatever one wants to call them? It is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string. I understand they are all different, but there must be an average figure. Is Fingal County Council concerned about the impact of construction inflation on the potential to turn around at the same speed this year and in future years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Sorry Acting Chair, that figure there-----

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Deputies for tabling the motion and giving us the opportunity to debate an incredibly important issue. It had not been my intention to speak but I looked for time to speak on behalf of two of my constituents. Many of my constituents are victims. As the Minister knows, there are many victims, many of whom will be excluded. One is a man who thinks he is aged 79; he does not know...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the review of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; and when this review may be published. [52137/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chair. I thank our guests not just for attending but generally for the work they do. It is great to have an opportunity to have this discussion and shine a bit of a light on it. I was struck by the following line in Dr. Widdis' submission: "we presume no business wants the operational, reputational or legal risk of being linked to abuses of human rights and damage to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms Lawlor for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That will be essential because human rights defenders and unions will be the eyes and ears. If this directive is done right, they will be the eyes and ears of this directive in every home. Ms Tunney is dead right to make that point. We are talking here predominantly although not exclusively about vulnerable women workers and nobody would be more vulnerable than a woman working in the home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Expanding the sectors to include more sectors that would be considered high risk seems very reasonable. It is alarming that there are even discussions about watering down the proposal when 99% of EU businesses are already excluded. There is no point in having the directive if 100% of EU businesses are to be excluded. We need to get that right. On the engagement that either of our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms. Lawlor. I must leave now but it is fair to say that the buck stops with the senior Minister. These are questions we can put to him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Apologies for my absence earlier. I will catch up on anything I missed. I also apologise if my question has been asked and answered. I will not ask the witnesses to repeat themselves; they can just refer me to the transcript. It concerns a point that was made about cases being taken, and specifically, the time cases take. I think the word used was "decades". There is an article within...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry to cut across Dr. Widdis, but that is my concern. Telling someone that they have the right to do something and then building a big wall between them and that right means that they might as well not have it. The perception that right exists without access to being able to vindicate that right makes it worse.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Does Dr. Widdis fear that this civil liability is going to be watered down or removed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That is something that we, as a committee, could bring to the attention of the Tánaiste, as the relevant Minister, and try to put it up in lights. I would be surprised if he was not aware of it. However, just in case he is not, it may be useful for us, as a committee, to alert him to that serious concern. Does Ms Lawlor want to comment on the same subject?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I think we need to focus on strengthening it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It has taken eight or nine years and presumably a significant amount of resources as well, and all the support.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I suppose the job for us is to marry up the carrot and the stick, if one likes. We can operate from the assumption that most companies want to have a reputation for being decent and treating their workers well. Nobody wants to wear clothes that have been made by children in sweat shops. However, that will not be enough in terms of persuading people. There will have to be some form of very...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank my colleague, an Teachta O'Rourke, not just for the important motion, but for all of the work he is doing. The Taoiseach spoke directly to the 378,000 people who are on prepay meters and told them that they would not be cut off, but then the Minister's party colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, appearing on a television programme at the weekend, told people that...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute on the Bill. I commend the work of Fáilte Ireland, but I want to say to the Members from rural Ireland, some of whom spoke before me, that I am not certain of the benefit of a ramble around their own county, listing bed and breakfast accommodation, because I do not know how many international tourists tune in here to get their travel...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Workers in the security industry have not had a pay rise since 2019. In August, and for the second time, a small number of employers in the industry have secured an injunction against the employment regulation order, ERO. Can the Taoiseach confirm that this ERO will be challenged by the Government? Can he also give us an indication as to when these workers are going to receive the pay rise...