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Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(c) is paid with the intention that it is a gift from a customer to a server(s) intended for the benefit of the server and other employees;”. I apologise, because I do not have numbered amendments. I sincerely hope I am talking to the right one. This is the amendment that relates to...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Whether it is a big booking or a small booking, the people coming in are all paying for their service and the food. If one has a restaurant that has 30 seats, it is the same if those 30 seats are full by way of a group booking or 15 individuals picking up the phone and booking a table for two. The restaurant is getting the money, in any event. I do not accept that they have to put on more...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Brexit Issues (13 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to companies in certain European Union member states that are refusing to deliver supply products to this State, and who are citing Brexit as their reasoning; and if he will raise this matter at an EU level. [38203/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unified Patent Court: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: On the first page of IBEC's submission, it states "these issues have now been resolved, and the pace has picked up considerably across Europe with the new court on track to open its doors in early 2023, with or without Ireland.". To a certain extent, while the subsequent part of the submission does not suggest so, the above suggests that the boat has sailed on this anyway and that things are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unified Patent Court: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It strikes me that we are very far behind on this. I do not know that we would be able to catch up but we can tease that out. Mr. Gaffney will be aware that there are well-accredited groups that have a view about that courts such as the UPC limit democratic freedoms and, crucially, interfere with the creation of things such as patent-free medicine. We have had a debate at this committee,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unified Patent Court: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: On the second page of IBEC's submission, it says the "current system of country-by-country patent protection and litigation is ... expensive, time consuming and resource intensive". Will Mr. Gaffney give us an example of the kind of money being talked about when he says it is expensive, relative to a SME? Is it prohibitively expensive, to the point where people decide they cannot afford it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unified Patent Court: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Do we have any research on the number of companies that have just one or two patents which could scale the number up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unified Patent Court: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Sweeney referred to one in 100 compared with one in ten. That is true across the European Union. Does he have any information relating to Ireland specifically, such as a survey of companies with certain proportions stating they would issue more patents if they could afford to defend them? The chances are that we are similar to the rest of Europe. What information are we relying on?

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It is Government Members who are like the Muppets.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (12 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his reasons for continuing to refuse to derogate from the general scheme of legal protection of wild birds in the interests of public health and safety; and the reason that he extended the 2021-2022 derogations for three months and in so doing inflicting another high-density urban gull breeding season on identified impacted...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (12 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Natural England has now fully implemented its new urban gull policy that it announced in February 2020 (details supplied); the reason that he and his Department despite having identical primary legislation in the Wildlife Act 2000 as amended, continue to refuse to provide any...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (12 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service retain all files and records pertinent to the research, consultation and preparation work for the drafting and approval of S.I. No. 254/1986 - European Communities (Wildlife Act, 1976) (Amendment) Regulations, 1986; if not, if these materials were lodged with the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (12 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 226 and 227 of 31 May 2022, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a 17-page formal complaint dealing with extremely serious matters that was submitted by persons to his Department on 23 February 2022 has neither been acknowledged nor replied to; and if he can advise on when...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (12 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the details of the licences provided to Dublin City Council by the National Parks and Wildlife Service for the five-year scaring programme; and the analyses over the five years that were conducted by the National Parks and Wildlife Service to ensure that the scaring programme was effective, proportionate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (12 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Local Authority Housing Delivery Action Plans that were being reviewed by his Department and which were due to be published before the end of Q2 2022; and if he will provide a list of the plans that have been published and the plans that have been delayed and when they are due to be published. [37296/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (12 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the Approved Housing Body Classification Working Group; and the progress that has been made to date towards securing off-balance sheet statistical classification for approved housing bodies. [37297/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (12 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 483. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the consideration that was given to facilitating persons with disabilities who may have issues with getting their photograph taken for example a visually impaired person who cannot look directly into the camera or may not be able to stay still to use the online system for applying for a passport; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (12 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consideration that was given to facilitating persons with disabilities who may have issues with getting their photograph taken for example a visually impaired person who cannot look directly into the camera or may not be able to stay still, to use the online system for applying for a public services card; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Housing Policy (12 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 721. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of housing policy objective 25 in Housing for All, the review of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; and when the review will be completed. [37100/22]