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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: My next question is for Ms Graham and Ms Mulholland. It is more around the current impact of not having any access to paid leave for victims and survivors. Is it their experience that women - and I will say women because it is mostly women but not only women - have lost their jobs? Have they found themselves in that situation because they could not access leave? It is important to put it...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: If there is time, I have one more question. The question is addressed first to Ms Benson, and then to the other witnesses. We have more or less covered this issue, but I want to be belt and braces about it. Are the witnesses happy and satisfied that enough consultation has been done? We could say that there is never enough consultation. We could be doing it for the rest of our lives. At...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: In my opinion, it is unlikely that anything will emerge at this stage. I feel that there is a lot of research and evidence in the public domain already. I am not saying that we should draw a line under it and stop learning, as every day is a school day for everyone, but perhaps we are in a position to state we know enough now to move forward. I am conscious that I have taken up a lot of...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I know I am not a witness but the intention is that it would be taken in the normal way, so that an employee could take a half day's leave or a quarter day's leave. That is why the Bill is an amendment to the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. Everything has to be done in consultation but it is housed within the Organisation of Working Time Act because it will operate in a similar way...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not believe there is a need to do so but that does not mean I would be hostile to putting it in. I absolutely would include it if people felt it was necessary. It is already very much implicitly there in the Organisation of Working Time Act. That is how leave operates, in any event, which is why it is there. Employees do not have to take ten days' leave in a block when they might be...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: No, I understand. Thank you.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: There are standard penalties, but one would have to go to the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, to vindicate that and to assess the level of damage to the person. If people said they had an illness, the employer would be obliged not to visit the local Centra and gossip about it. That obligation already exists. Not to belabour the point, that is why this is being included in the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Having had this discussion today with the witnesses, I have found it to be really useful and beneficial. I now cannot think of a single, solitary reason to delay this.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That is in the International Labour Organization, ILO, conventions as well, as Ms Benson will know. It is an information campaign. It is not enough to have the legislation and nobody knowing about it. All the leave in the world would be grand if you never knew you had the right to take it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 1697. To ask the Minister for Health if patients are represented on the new Covid-19 advisory group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20678/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if assurances will be given that his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service species’ derogation considerations which are to inform any and all recommendations made by his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service to him for each species considered for control actions will have regard to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 638. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide copies of all the objective evidence that informed the derogation recommendations made to him under the 1979 Birds Directive Article 9.1.a and S.I. No. 477/2011, European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 section 55.2.a; the reason for the acceptance of each species that was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide copies of the evidence that underpinned the section 8 recommendation of the April 2020 First Interim Report by the Consultative Committee on urban gulls established by his predecessor in June 2019 to examine the impacts of urban gulls on communities and make recommendations (details supplied). [19962/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the two sets of expert legal advice that were obtained in August 2020 and February 2021 by his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service to provide expert legal advice to its Consultative Committee on urban gulls fully endorsed the committee’s recommendation in section 8 of the First Interim Report,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 1127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a situation (details supplied); the number of persons in this situation; if a breakdown exists by local electoral area; the type of accommodation persons are living in; the supports and help available to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19958/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (26 Apr 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 1370. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of providing BNP blood testing and echocardiography at primary care level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19369/22]