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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The question is how we find those small initiatives and then scale them. How do we make sure that those initiatives find the people who need to be found, who can very often be lost within the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I am talking about where it can be adapted and where we can find that learning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That is exactly what we are looking for. It is just more information. Specific groups have been identified in both of the witnesses' presentations, namely, Travellers, lone parents and young people experiencing disadvantage. It is about being able to reach those groups. Both of my constituency offices are located close to the Intreo office. As it happens, I am the only TD in my area with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: On that, it is already an offence under the equality legislation to discriminate against a person for membership of the Travelling community. How is adding another ground going to work if it does not currently work? The figures speak for themselves. The levels of unemployment and disadvantage experienced by members of the Travelling community bring shame on the powers that be, we will say....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Issues always arise in the workplace. I was a union official for over a decade. It makes no odds what postcode a person was born in or what box they check. Issues will arise and they can always be dealt with in the workplace. On that, will Ms Rogers comment on specific groups and exclusion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms Rogers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I will return to the issue of exclusion and those groups in particular. It is something that we keep coming back to, for good reason. I note Social Justice Ireland stated that there has to be "a major commitment to retraining and re-skilling". I do not want to put words in anyone's mouth, but some of that retraining and reskilling has to involve employers, human resource managers and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It is no surprise that there is nobody in a wheelchair in employment there because they would not be able to work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: No, and we are not putting that on the witnesses’ shoulders. I remarked on it because it is very rare and it was nice to see.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It needs to drive it. Many Traveller organisations and disability representative groups receive State funding and employ people from their own community. That is not where our focus should be, however. Our focus needs to be on ensuring that people enter the broader workforce as well. Obviously, these organisations need staff, and staff with experience and life experience is really...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to start by offering my condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of Aoife Johnston. I have read sections of the report and your heart would break in half listening to what happened to her parents. It must have been awful. As the report said, the family felt powerless amid all of the chaos of accident and emergency all around them. My grandmother died in accident and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Priorities (24 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 123. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is planning to protect Ireland's equity capital market and to support the large number of professional services firms and jobs that are dependent on the presence of a vibrant domestic market. [37817/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Priorities (24 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance the way we can ensure that Irish capital markets can prosper and compete with other EU markets in the case that proposals for an EU Capital Markets Union are finalised and implemented. [37818/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (24 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 519. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that patients in Beaumont Hospital A&E who are left on chairs awaiting admission do not have access to pillows or blankets; if he will ask the HSE to ensure that these are provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37819/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: We are steadfast on this.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister hit the nail on the head. That is the point I was making. We want people to be able to stay there. The vast majority of people in Balbriggan who are of working age and employed leave. They leave in the morning to go to work. They are not employed locally. There is an issue with underemployment that the Minister will be aware of. Even the report refers to towns like...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to help grow the Dublin-Belfast economic corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30131/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister will be well aware of the DCU and University of Ulster report that outlined not just the challenges, of which there were loads, but also the potential for the development of the Dublin-Belfast economic corridor. I would welcome an update from him on the work of his own Department in this regard. If I could be a small bit parochial relating to himself and myself, I would be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister. Specifically, I am interested in knowing the work of the Minister's Department. I appreciate his response but a lot of that was focused on how people get out of Fingal by train and other public transport. I would appreciate if he could focus on how people can stay, and specific actions from his Department with regard to growing. What that report identified was huge...