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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 17. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Enterprise Digital Advisory Board to be established to support enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence is not to oversee the rights of workers and customers which are being developed within the European Union, in particular, in the Artificial Intelligence Act and the proposed Platform Workers Directive, if this will...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has concerns that an overly business-focused national AI strategy will struggle to build trust in new artificial intelligence technologies amongst those who are currently seeing these technologies begin to monitor and manage their work. [62413/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for being here and for the information they have provided. I am a massive fan of co-ops, specifically workers' co-ops. I have some small experience in working with, though not in, a workers' co-op. They are the foundation for and a fundamental part of a functioning economy that gives back to society and delivers for the workers. Co-ops can be a real force for good in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I think that is highly regrettable and as this Bill progresses, I intend to table amendments to facilitate this. Can we get information in relation how many co-ops were supported by the CDU and how that worked when they came through? I have some personal experience of the CDU. I understood it to be both supportive and important in getting these co-ops started. This legislation is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: You have to wonder whether the winding up of the CDU and the winding up of those co-operatives might somehow be related. We will have a chance to explore that at a later stage. Can Mr. Shine answer the workers' rights question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Could they be added to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: They can not, so there can be no change to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Do they specifically reference workers' rights ?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: We are going to have to do a bit of work on that. Will issues around succession planning, liquidation, administration and the sale of companies be dealt with? In 2014, the French Government introduced measures to facilitate workers requesting a buy-out as part of their succession planning through a workers' co-operative buy-out model. Is it intended that we will have anything similar?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Will it be easier to do the transfer in terms of a workers' buy-out? Will that be facilitated as part of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I have to leave for a few minutes but hopefully I will get back. I think we are missing a trick here if we do not support the smaller social enterprises and workers' co-ops. I think the scope exists within the legislation for us to expand it a little bit and improve on it. I thank the witnesses and I look forward to working with them and the officials in the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (14 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Shine for his response. Being mindful of that and that not all co-ops are equal, as it were, there will be some social enterprises, workers' co-ops specifically, that may need extra help to get going. I am mindful that the co-operative development unit, CDU, which was established, no longer exists according to my information. I had some engagement with it and was impressed with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The research was, indeed, interesting. I join the Minister in acknowledging the work of Dr. Collins and Dr. Elliott O'Dare and their teams. The specific aspects I would like to raise with the Minister concern the number of participants who believe the pay they receive is inadequate and the manner in which the living wage will seek to address this. The adequacy of pension income is a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I appreciate, as the Minister does, that older people work for a variety of reasons, but that does not mean they should not be fairly paid for the work they do. The Tánaiste announced the living wage will be benchmarked at 60% rather than 66%. I think it should be 66%. We should have a realistic and credible plan to move in that direction because that is the only way those affected...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the research report entitled, Low Paid Older Workers in Ireland: a Quantitative and Qualitative profile of Low Pay among Workers Aged over 50. (details supplied). [62094/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: All my questions are reasonably straightforward and this one is no different. It refers to a report, Low Paid Older Workers in Ireland: a Quantitative and Qualitative profile of Low Pay among Workers Aged over 50, which makes for fairly stark reading. While they do not relate to all workers aged over 50 years, the report raises concerns. I would welcome the Minister's views on it.

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Tonight I have witnessed some uncomfortable Members on the Government benches and the lads all know what they have to do. They must defend their man or face an election. That is what has brought them in here because there could not be support for the record of this Minister on those benches. It is either that or the Government Deputies do not hold constituency clinics, answer the phone or...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It is your motion.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to research from an organisation (details supplied) that found that 70% of small and medium enterprises in Ireland fear that they may have to close in 2023 due to rising costs. [62095/22]