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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. 8: In page 6, line 21, after “by” where it secondly occurs to insert “means of monetary payment and/or”.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 9: In page 6, line 23, after “by” to insert “means of monetary payment and/or”.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I share the concerns of Deputies Paul Murphy and Catherine Murphy. I also have a further concern. The mechanism for redress is through the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, but that would not apply in the case of cash tips. I am sure we all do the same thing in restaurants. If we are tipping, we ask the people serving us if they get to keep the tip if it is in cash. They will say...

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

Louise O'Reilly: Perhaps the Tánaiste could explain the situation. The intention behind the Bill is to ensure people do not have their tips robbed from them. I get that. It is why we are all here. We accept it is a problem that needs to be dealt with. Not every case that comes before the WRC has a paper trail or includes absolute proof. Sometimes a union official will only have the evidence that...

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

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, line 18, after “by” where it secondly occurs to insert “means of monetary payment and/or”.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “(c) made 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;”,”.

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...