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

Louise O'Reilly: This is a very straightforward question. The question relates to research by Wise Business, a global fintech group, which found that 70% of SMEs in Ireland fear they may have to close in 2023 due to rising costs. Will the Minister outline the supports that are available for businesses and when they will be coming on stream? Has he read this report and are the results of it concerning to...

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

Louise O'Reilly: Will the Minister give a definitive date for when the first payment will be made? I am aware that the scheme is open but people are anxious to know when they will get the payments. The survey from Wise Business covered 250 businesses. What they are reporting is worrying. Notwithstanding some positives in the survey, and while I do not wish to focus on the negative, they raise the concern...

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

Louise O'Reilly: On the expansion of the rate of payments under the TBESS, is the 40% coverage of additional costs as far as the Government can go? I have pushed the Minister of State, Deputy English, a little on this question previously. I ask this because the current difficulties being experienced by Irish businesses, particularly SMEs and family businesses, are fairly significant. They need to know...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Joint Labour Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 94. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or his Department have any plans to strengthen the joint labour committees and employment agreements and orders. [62041/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 108. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a company (details supplied) made him or his Department, aware that it was going to lock staff out of its Dublin office on 18 November 2022. [62046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of delays in the National Transport Authority extending the life of taxis beyond the ten-year age limit for vehicles and the impact this is having on taxi drivers securing a new licence for 2023; if he will engage with the NTA about having the process expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62280/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Company Law (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance the assessment that has been carried out by his Department on a recent European Court of Justice ruling, Judgment of the Court in Joined Cases C-37/20, Luxembourg Business Registers and C-601/20, which seems to call into question the principle of a public register of beneficial ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62338/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 650. To ask the Minister for Health the options that are available for a family to obtain medical records on a deceased relative where the relative was being cared for in a private nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62281/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 657. To ask the Minister for Health the services currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access these services within their communities following a diagnosis; if he will provide an update on discussions between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62335/22]

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It is important to point out, lest anyone think pre-legislative scrutiny, PLS, was done on this, it was not. The PLS was conducted on an entirely different piece of legislation, one which, as we have already discussed, was inherently flawed, exactly as we might expect from this Government. I asked the Minister a specific question in regard to the protections that apply. I take it from...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I think that is very wrong. Protection should be there for people who are remote working. Again, it is that paternalistic, grace and favour arrangement and attitude. The Minister referenced the importance of an employer knowing the worker can access the office. As it stands, an employer does not need to know where a person lives. All they need to know is that the worker turns up. If...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: There was no PLS conducted on this section of that Bill. The PLS was on an entirely different piece of legislation. That is the point I was making. If it was any way unclear, I apologise, but I thought it was a fairly simple and straightforward point. The PLS and the report that arose from it was on a completely different piece of legislation. I am not disputing that PLS took place in...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That last sentence on whether a worker is not doing their full duties worried me a bit. If a worker is not carrying out their full duties, believe me, there are plenty of polices, procedures and everything else that can ensure they do. I do not see the need to put that into this legislation, to be frank. The reason we are here discussing this is that despite having nearly two and a half...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That is okay.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I note that four weeks are allowed for a worker to appeal in instances where this is being denied them. Flexibility is being given to an employer to make arrangements for a worker coming back so there is more time allowed there. There is mention in this of the WRC and the Labour Court. Is it the intention that the move to which the worker is objecting will take place, obviously under...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I just want to formally record that I think it is a bit unfair that flexibility is being given on the employer's end and that they will have time that a worker might not get back. They are getting an extension to that four weeks but the same is not being offered to workers. We all know it is going to take months and not weeks to get to the WRC.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I have a question for the Minister on this. Is it intended that the code of practice be developed by his Department or by the Labour Employer Economic Forum, LEEF? Will his Department be attending the LEEF or how is that going to work?

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: May I say a word on it?

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I will be very brief. I have asked the Minister, probably six times at this stage, if he can please explain how this is going to operate in practice in the civil and public service. As he is well aware, workers in the higher education sector will be entitled to ten days of leave. Ten days is the international norm. It is what has been negotiated by trade unions. Ten days is what Women's...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister being open to amending this legislation. Without meaning to point fingers, or anything like that, this may be some acknowledgement that a bit more time is going to be needed to get this right. I am minded to recall what was said earlier regarding Stephen Teap and Lorraine Walsh. They have said that this legislation does not pass what was referred to as the Vicky...