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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise for interrupting Mr. Clancy but does Enterprise Ireland have a specific unit? Going back many years, and I am showing my age now, there used to be a specific co-operative development unit and it was very focused. It was not simply a case of saying a co-operative is a business and if you rock up to the business space we will deal with you as a business. I am specifically talking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Clancy for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. McElwee for that response. I have another question specifically for Mr. McElwee concerning the difficulties SMEs and microenterprises experience when competing with the massive global multinational corporations such as Amazon. Recently the chief executive of the IDA Ireland said: It is great to see Ireland continuing to attract investment and playing such an important part in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. McElwee For that. My time is up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I have one question and then must leave the meeting. This is something that we will follow up on in a more detailed discussion. I had an engagement with Mr. Clancy recently and we will have further engagements. I am trying to understand the point at which issues around workers' rights, supporting decent jobs and so on enter the process. Perhaps Mr. Clancy might enlighten us as to the point...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That might be a conversation we have at a later date. Mr. Clancy mentioned cost-benefit analyses and other analyses of Enterprise Ireland's investments. Obviously, salaries form part of that but we have a voluntary system of industrial relations. Sin scéal eile as to whether that works, but it is what it is. Mr. Clancy mentioned statutory requirements. In many instances, those are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Excellent. I thank Mr. Clancy and the other witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Sorry. That was an interruption. Please, continue.

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: There is a cost-of-living crisis and it is hammering low- to middle-income workers. We keep saying it, but the Minister just cannot hear it, or he hears it and does not get it, or he does get it but is not interested in doing anything about it. The Minister needs to listen and to engage with the Opposition when we put forward solutions. In my constituency of Dublin Fingal, workers are...

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I am grateful for the opportunity to make a contribution on the Bill. Protected disclosures and whistleblowers are often a force for good and an essential component in exposing corruption, illegality, criminality and wrongdoing in public and private bodies. Sometimes they are workers and sometimes they are volunteers and I hope that will get teased out. According to the Office of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider expanding membership of the Labour Employer Economic Forum to include an organisation (details supplied). [6897/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Regulation (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 201. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will help SMEs by streamlining the annual statutory reporting procedures for incorporated bodies given that the current situation mandates them to submit separate statutory reports containing exactly the same information to the Companies Registration Office, the Revenue Commissioners, the Register of Beneficial Ownership and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 296. To ask the Minister for Finance if the new European Union VAT rules agreed in December 2021 at European Council level will impact on Ireland's existing derogations from European Union VAT rules. [7983/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 752. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the publication of the stroke strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7981/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 753. To ask the Minister for Health the way that the stroke strategy is progressing for implementation; the consideration that has been given through the HSE 2022 National Service Planning process for funding opportunities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7982/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (10 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider for provision to be made for limited periods of self-certified sick leave under the proposed sick leave Bill until such time as free and universal general practitioner care is introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7199/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (10 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The Tánaiste will by now have received the pre-legislative scrutiny report from the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The debate on self-certification or medical certification was pretty robust, as the Tánaiste can imagine. I put down this question because I want to hear the Tánaiste's views and hear if he can understand the quandary the committee found...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (10 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The Tánaiste mentioned people who cannot afford to stay off work. It is important that people who are sick have the comfort of knowing they can stay off work, and we all agree on that. However, there are people who cannot afford to go to the doctor. What I am trying to put into the Tánaiste's head and what I am asking him to consider is the case of a worker who cannot access...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (10 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Approximately 16% of people who are at work are covered by the medical card, so that would need to be much broader. The committee was grappling with this point. The Tánaiste mentioned that we are an outlier, which we are in terms of not having a statutory sick pay scheme, but we are also an outlier in that the vast majority of people have to pay to go to their GP. In the absence of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (10 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: They have access to a GP without having to pay for it, so it is apples and oranges.