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

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for answering our questions so well thus far. I want to ask about the role IDA Ireland played in the purchase of ventilators by a company known as Roqu Media, a festival management company. I am sure the witnesses are familiar with it. I am not exactly certain what its expertise in ventilators and ventilation is, but perhaps the witnesses can enlighten us on that....

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

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry, Mr. Shanahan, but while I had 14 minutes in the first round, I only have seven now. Could Mr. Shanahan specifically address my question on IDA Ireland's role?

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

Louise O'Reilly: In the case of Roqu Media, how did that happen? Did the IDA reach out to it or did it reach out to IDA Ireland?

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

Louise O'Reilly: It was not with IDA Ireland, so the agency had no contact, role or involvement at any point. I thank Mr. Shanahan. My next question is on a not-dissimilar theme. We all read the stories, particularly in the Business Postbut also elsewhere, regarding the Minister of State, Deputy Troy's meeting, and granting of confidentiality to big tech companies in advance of the meeting, to discuss the...

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

Louise O'Reilly: It is not unreasonable that a client would want to know. It would be unreasonable if the client wanted to control it, though. I am sure Mr. Shanahan would agree.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I accept that the IDA does not do it as a matter of course. Though it might not be the IDA's practice all the time, it does it sometimes, does it not?

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

Louise O'Reilly: What Mr. Shanahan said was "as a matter of course". I am sorry, but I want to be specific. He said that, as a matter of course, the IDA did not do that.

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

Louise O'Reilly: Does that mean that it usually does not do that but does sometimes or that it never does it?

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

Louise O'Reilly: In an instance where, as Mr. Shanahan mentioned, the IDA does not ask for confidentiality, it might ask the Government about the meeting's status, whether it will be formal, will formal minutes be taken and where they will go. In this case, assurances were given that the meeting would be confidential and minutes would not be taken. To be straight with Mr. Shanahan, that worries me. He says...

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

Louise O'Reilly: Regarding the meeting on the European Commission's legislation specifically, confidentiality was-----

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

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry. I have just one brief question. My understanding is that confidentiality was granted in this instance, but Mr. Shanahan is saying that this was not arranged by the IDA. I want to be clear.

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

Louise O'Reilly: Sought by whom?

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

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our witnesses for being here. I thank Mr. Shanahan for his presentation, and for not going through the slide deck, because we can go through it ourselves. I am glad to see someone else has my aversion to PowerPoint as well.

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

Louise O'Reilly: As regards Amazon specifically, what is the ratio of the good high-value and high-quality jobs to which Mr. Shanahan refers compared with jobs that are less high quality? Does IDA Ireland encompass issues such as bogus self-employment within its strategy? The company might be paying a good wage to the people who issue the contracts to the poor unfortunates who are doing the delivery. The...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the members of the committee for facilitating this hearing. I also want to say a special word of thanks to Sinéad Ní Bhroin for all the work she has put into this legislation. Gender-based abuse and violence is not just a justice issue or a health issue; it is a housing issue, a children’s issue, a worker’s issue and a worker’s rights issue. When a...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Deputy Bacik for her support. My understanding is that the model in New Zealand is ten days and that is seen as the optimum because it gives enough time for victims and survivors, should they need it, and enough comfort to employers that it will not be excessive. It also means that it is possible to do a certain amount of planning. On the question of stakeholders, I would see...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and I were present at the virtual launch of the policy, which is being spearheaded by Dr. Nata Duvvury in the gender studies department of the university. Those involved in its creation noted it was something that was already happening in the private sector. They asked themselves whether they could introduce...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: My experience in my previous life included being a workplace representative. That is the perspective from which we came to this issue. This legislation is an amendment to the Organisation of Working Time Act. Deputy Bacik has similar legislation. This legislation is intended to be there as an addition to leave that exists already. One of the things that does is to bring the conversation...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Senator. On the question about flexibility, I will say that the ten days can be broken up. If a woman's refuge is far away from her workplace, she would have the opportunity to take that leave parcelled up. I would be open to having a discussion at the next stage about how we could extend it in certain specific circumstances. That is a worthwhile conversation. The Senator...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (25 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: My experience tells me that the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 is the place for it. There is no fundamental disagreement between the Minister and me and we all agree that the legislation should be drafted and brought in. If the Minister was here I would tell him that I have a Bill that is ready to go, that has been drafted by the parliamentary legal advisers, that has been...