Results 341-360 of 12,393 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (15 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 620. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the current drug and alcohol strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, does not include any actions in relation to alcohol related brain injury despite research (details supplied); if he agrees that the new alcohol strategy to replace this in 2025 should include actions to address this issue given there may be 31,500 adults in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (15 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 621. To ask the Minister for Health if the planned review of the Drug and Alcohol Strategy, Reducing Harm Supporting Recovery, includes an evaluation of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018. [41216/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (10 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister tells me research is being conducted into the impact of paid sick leave. I could have saved the Department a fortune: the impact of paid sick leave being available to workers is that people who are sick can afford to not go to work. Hopefully they can afford to stay at home and get better and not bring whatever it is they have into their workplace and potentially infect other...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (10 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That is not the case.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (10 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to discuss the importance of sick leave. I genuinely thought I had done a good job convincing the Government how important sick leave is, but after reading the budget, it turns out that I have a little more work to do. During the pandemic, we spent hours discussing the importance of sick leave and of workers being able to safely and affordably stay out of work when they were not...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The additional powers for the CEA have been broadly welcomed and I would not take away from that. Will resources match them as there will be an extra requirement for them to do this? It is important and I urge the Minister of State to make it clear that the expectation is that this will be watched. No one wants to see something that is efficient, passes the SME test and so forth and could...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I have a general remark to make. I thank the Minister of State and his officials. I hope it was noted that everyone who spoke on the Bill in the Dáil thanked the officials for their work. This is largely technical. I had some concerns, which I outlined and hope we can address during the course of this debate. During the banking crisis, we saw the power of in-person AGMs and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Marks (Madrid Protocol) (Amendment) Regulations 2024: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I have one question but it may not be related to this. It concerns an issue we will be discussing at a later hearing of this committee, namely, the country of origin assignation, which is not specifically a trademark but is related. I just want to check that there is nothing in this that affects that. We are happy to support this and will not be objecting to it but I just want to check...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Marks (Madrid Protocol) (Amendment) Regulations 2024: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That was my only question.

Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I met a mother in my constituency at the weekend. Out of respect for her and her family, I will limit the details I put on the record. This woman has recently lost her teenage child to suicide. I cannot imagine, not for a minute, not for a second, the utter grief, pain and torment she and her family are going through at this moment. She told me in no uncertain terms that her child had...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: We did, yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (3 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 12. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned at Health Research Board figures outlining alcohol-related poisoning deaths for 2021, which show that alcohol played a role in the poisoning of 155 people; if he is further concerned that this data represents only 10% of all alcohol-related deaths annually, over 1,500 people, which is about four times the number of people who die from...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Another budget and another round of short-term supports for business. It appears that the Minister for enterprise massively overestimated his capacity to influence his Cabinet colleagues because he was all over the media publicising his own down-to-the-wire negotiations pleading for the VAT reduction sought by some in the hospitality sector, but he failed to convince anyone. It looks like a...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, €64 billion.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It is not a point of order.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: This is not a point of order. The Deputy should not be allowed to continue.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (2 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 237. To ask the Minister for Health if there are pathways available for individuals with advanced qualifications such as a masters in chaplaincy to become registered wedding and funeral celebrants without completing an additional course; and if not, if he will outline the required courses and qualifications necessary to fulfil this role, including any allowances for HSE employees to serve as...