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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It will not be resolved until the Department is in the room, with respect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our guests for attending. It is much better when we are in the room. That is my personal preference. Mr. Mulligan said in his statement that the Minister indicated that he and his Department have a listening ear. Where was that when this was being drafted? Ms Patricia King from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, appeared before the committee, as Mr. Mulligan mentioned in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: With respect, if there was consultation, the listening ear has to be a new thing because the submissions that were made cannot have been taken on board. Otherwise we would not be here discussing substantial revisions that will be necessary to make this fit for purpose. I accept that there was a process of consultation, but Mr. Mulligan will have to accept as well that it was not robust...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Does the Department accept that those grounds will have to change now, wherever they came from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I hope that when the Department does the look back on this, it will inform how it deals with this stuff into the future. I have long argued that remote working should be considered a separate and distinct form of work, as shift work would have been when it was considered a couple of decades ago. It is its own form of work and it must have its own structures in place. The pandemic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I would not have a problem with the right to have remote working, but perhaps that is just me. I suggest that the Department start from the premise that all requests are granted unless there is a good reason not to. It has to trust people as well. Some people's work cannot be done remotely. We could not have our emergency department nurses working remotely. However, I doubt if any of them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I respectfully disagree. I also suggest that Mr. Mulligan does not have data to back that up. He has a feeling that most people did not work successfully from home. I will tell him that I have a feeling that most people did work successfully from home. I know that because they tell me that. Mr. Mulligan knows that as well, however, because the same as me and others, he probably also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: As my time is up, I will ask one very quick question. How many people in Mr. Mulligan's Department are currently availing of working from home arrangements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Changing to what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: And it is working well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That would be excellent because that would be a very good place to start.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is here. I invite her to correct the record on what is and what is not a Nightingale ward. I hope she has brought herself up to speed on that basic piece of information since our last debate. The Minister knows what the concerns are. He has heard them. I will quote from a tweet. Maybe given the circumstances and the trouble on Twitter I should not...

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this important legislation. The Bill contains many provisions that are very important from a workers' rights perspective. We should never forget that members of the Garda are workers. They do a very tough job, made more difficult by the fact they work in an environment that has been under-resourced for a long time. When we are thinking about Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (17 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of dedicated funding that will be provided to each local authority to monitor and enforce the smoky coal ban and any future solid fuel regulations as part of the forthcoming Clean Air Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24266/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (17 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the forthcoming government Clean Air Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24267/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (17 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of enforcement notices and prosecutions as reported to the Environmental Protection Agency by local authorities in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022 under the smoky coal ban regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24268/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (17 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes retrofitted and the number of heat pumps installed to date as part of the National Retrofitting Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24273/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (17 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of category A vehicles that were charged with the nitrogen dioxide emissions levy in 2021 and 2022; the revenue raised each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24277/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (17 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of electric vehicles in Ireland to date in 2022; the number of electric vehicles registered annually over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24276/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (17 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of schools enrolled in the safe routes to school programme in 2022; the number of schools waiting to be enrolled; the number of schools enrolled in the programme by county council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24281/22]