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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: There is a huge backlog.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That is one of several cases. I wish that I was only referring to one. That is one of several.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I am just asking the Minister to make a general statement.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I appreciate that Chinese walls exist within the Government and, naturally, they should but these are State-funded organisations. I will not refer to any one specifically but they think that there will be no comeback for them other than that which the workers will do by way of industrial action. We should do everything that we can to avoid employees having no option but industrial action....

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: They do acknowledge the WRC. My issue is not about whether the recommendation is accepted. My issue is about whether organisations will actually go into the WRC and engage in the process. That is the difficulty very often even when a case does not reach the stage of a recommendation being issued. This matter comes under the remit of the Minister, he has direct responsibility for the WRC...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I believe that it is possible because it has been done in other jurisdictions and, therefore, it should be done. To return to the number of inspectors, the Minister will be aware that the Towards 2016 national wage agreement that was agreed and implemented in part but not in full in 2006 recommended more than 90 inspectors. In his remarks, the Minister said he wanted to expand the work and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: That would be very useful to have so that at least there would be targets. Regarding the number of high-potential female-led start-ups, the output target for 2022 is 22. In 2020, the outturn was 19 out of 22 while in 2021, the outturn was nine out of a target of 22. Is the Minister confident that this year, the target of 22 can be reached? Similarly, is he confident that the targets for...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: According to the documents provided to us, the HSA carried out in excess of 7,500 workplace inspections across all sectors, of which 7,400 addressed alleged breaches of the Covid-19 mitigation measures as provided for in the protocol. However, in its contact unit, the HSA handled 5,000 complaints, 47% of which related to Covid. Less than half of complaints were directly Covid related yet...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I suspect, as the Minister must do himself, that that has a lot do with Covid. My concern is around the complaints that were referred and not followed up. The Minister said that when the HSA goes in inspect, it inspects a range of issues but does he have the figures to back that up? There were 7,400 workplace inspections. Arising out of those, has he heard from the HSA specifically that...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister. I think it would paint a full picture. People do not go to the authority on a whim. It is something they do when they feel they have no other option. Very often, they have raised the issues at workplace level but they have not had any traction on it. My concern is that the concentration on Covid, while completely understandable, may have allowed other breaches. I...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister very much. I genuinely wish I shared his optimism with regard to the bar being raised simply because people are now more aware of the need for separation, hand washing, etc. My fear is because of the time lost. It is in the Minister's statement that he will bring forward workers' rights legislation, some of which will be welcome and some of which will have to be...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: My time is up now. I appreciate what the Minister said about the constraints but I would appreciate even more a response from him that would indicate that he acknowledges the constraints and will be able to ensure that figure of 11% does not get any bigger. He has just accepted it will get bigger. There does not seem to be any limit set by the Minister or his Department. By the way, it is...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: No, it is the percentage.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister has already said that we are constrained in volume the electricity we produce. They are using 11% and that is only going to rise. As he said, 11% is a very high figure so 11% of a bigger figure is an even higher amount of electricity. That is the only direction in which it is going.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister said he expects we will all see a slowdown in the number of data centres being established. Could he put some figures on that? The figure of 11% is a lot. I do not hear anyone saying it is any more than 11% but I hear people saying it is currently at 11%. That is where we are sort of starting from today. It is only going in one direction. It is only going up so 11% of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Places (1 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a shortage of secondary school places across north County Dublin; and if she has plans to address this issue. [4400/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategy of her Department to increase the number of students undertaking science, technology, engineering and mathematics for the leaving certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4401/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 171. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make the HPV vaccine available free of cost to all persons who would medically benefit from it; his further plans to cater for third-level students who missed receiving the vaccine in school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3778/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Shanahan. There is merit in looking at that aspect. It should be examined seriously and in the way that France appears to be doing it. I must confess that I am basing this on news reports. There is significant merit in examining how that can be done and how we can learn from that approach. I accept fully that it is being done. Turning to Intel's planned expansion and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not dispute that our competitors have issues too, but there is nobody competing with us in terms of rising house prices and, indeed, other prices. It is not for nothing that this issue is raised with me very regularly. I appreciate the response of Mr. Shanahan and I thank him for it. I refer to remarks made previously by Mr. Shanahan. He stated: It is great to see Ireland...