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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to an organisation’s research study (details supplied), which found that one third of hybrid workers struggle to disconnect. [25327/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 23. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on his Department’s working group on the determination of employment status; the persons or bodies that are the members of the group; the remit of same; and the expected date for completion of its work. [25346/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to minimise redundancies resulting from the pandemic, war in the Ukraine and spiralling inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25348/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 73. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views that non-adherence to Employment Regulation Orders are a problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25345/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 77. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the second instalment of the Central Statistics Office’s Personal and Work-Life Balance Survey 2021 which found that nearly a quarter of people in full-time employment are struggling to make ends meet. [25347/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional resources will be provided to a school (details supplied) in order that it can increase the number of places in specific learning disability classes for the 2022-2023 school year. [25425/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional resources will be provided to a school (details supplied) in order that it can roll-out the leaving certificate applied course for students in the school. [25426/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 346. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1374 of 26 April 2022, the progress of the development of thirty integrated care specialist ambulatory care hubs in the community; the number that are functional; the number that are staffed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25428/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 347. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1374 of 26 April 2022, if the 17 whole-time equivalent acute CVD clinical nurse specialists and the 16 consultant cardiologist posts which have been funded to address acute hospital gaps have been filled; the progress that has been made to date in filling these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 348. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1374 of 26 April 2022, the number of integrated care cardiology teams that are needed; the locations in which they are needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25430/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Levels (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 349. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 11 May 2022, if the specific action discussed at the Obesity Policy Implementation Oversight Group meeting of 24 March 2021 at which a breastfeeding position paper was noted as being needed was progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25431/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 350. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 11 May 2022, the status of the recruitment of the additional 24 lactation consultants as announced by his Department in 2021; the locations in which these posts have been filled; the locations in which these posts are vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25432/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 406. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on whether it is fair that for the purposes of the local improvement scheme that all of Dublin is treated as a city and therefore all local authorities are excluded, along with Cork City Council and Galway City Council, even though vast swathes of north County Dublin within Fingal County Council area are extremely rural...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: This is very mean-spirited. The penalty was 20 weeks' remuneration, which was reasonable. This has to act as a deterrent. Remember, we are not here to deal with employers who do the right thing and good employers who already provide sick leave. We are here to deal with employers who do not and for whom the law will be required to ensure they do the right thing by their workers. The 20...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I would be similarly interested to hear about that but, equally, the Tánaiste said this is directly linked to the number of sick leave days a person will get. It is three days in the first instance, which will rise to ten days all being well. Is it his intention this will increase incrementally or is it four weeks and that is it?

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I have similar amendments. I agree with what an Teachta Paul Murphy has said. I want to include a reference to the need to have a GP certificate because it is a fact in this State, and I am not comparing us to every other country, that we do not have universal, free at the point of delivery access to GP care. It is not true to say the majority of low-paid workers have access to it. In...

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Very briefly, it is an awful pity that my amendment was not accepted, which would have phased in this requirement to present a medical certificate alongside the extension of the universal access to GP care.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 22: In page 7, line 4, after “day” to insert “equivalent to their full daily rate of pay”.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 12: In page 6, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(b) the state of society generally, the public interest and employee well-being;”.

Sick Leave Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I agree. It makes me a bit nervy, given that previous Governments have reduced sick pay entitlements for civil and public servants. I am not going to get into it, but that was done and there were all the reasons in the world given for it. I think it was Deputy Howlin at the time who said it would improve productivity, but it did not. I am concerned, given there is form on this, that it...