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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I believe that the right to collective bargaining has to be part of that. We cannot simply have a system whereby the State, when it feels like it, gives rights to workers or says to employers that if they do a certain thing, it will give them a certain thing and they have to respect workers' rights. If workers' rights are for sale, eventually the price becomes too high. I would like to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: In the short term, we are talking about mobile labour that may be attracted to some of the work here. Is it necessary to put measures in place to control rents? At the moment, there is a difficulty with the rental market in Dublin. It is driving people out of the capital and to the regions. It is acting as a barrier for this highly productive mobile labour that may wish to move here. Are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: We are going to push up prices unless we control them. The raging free market got us the rental market that we have. I agree that more pressure on the rental sector will push up the prices unless controls are in place. I would like to focus on that in the short to medium term. I am talking about people who are scanning the rental sector here with a view to potentially moving, either from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Can the witnesses specify how our competitiveness is suffering because of the crippling costs of housing, childcare and living? The report states there is an impact. Can that be quantified, maybe not in pounds, shillings and pence, but maybe using another quantifiable figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Gilvarry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: To pick up on remote working, we know it will be a growing feature. We all should recognise that people are not returning to work because they have been working all along. They are just returning to the office a little more. I note the contribution about the stress that remote working perhaps causes for managers. With regard to workers and the stress caused for them by working remotely,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: It is also worth noting that the state of our dysfunctional housing sector means that many people are living in overcrowded or inappropriate accommodation. I have spoken to workers who, out of necessity, have conducted their business balanced on the edge of the bed in the box room in their parents' house because they have nowhere else to go. All these things need to come together. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Presumably, then, if we are talking about SMEs and family-run businesses, there will have to be a specific focus on training. We are talking about research and development, but the people who will invest in and conduct the research and development will also need some training themselves.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: As Ms Kane says, these things are all interlinked. Does the NCPC see a role for the education sector in this or would it be done through the local enterprise offices? How does the NCPC see this innovation happening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges to Ireland's Competitiveness: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms Kane. That is interesting because there is much we need to do in terms of training. I am conscious I do not see that this is being driven. There seems to be an element of contentment with the growth. As it is, I do not believe it is sustainable without that manufacturing base there and that is what we see in other jurisdictions. Notwithstanding that, to reference the report...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (2 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Tánaiste for the response. The findings are very worrying. The Tánaiste outlined what is in place to protect workers, but the findings not just from Dr. Curran's research but also from Unite the Union's research paper, Hidden Truths - The reality of work in Ireland's hospitality and tourism sector, point to an industry where there are significant issues. As I have to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (2 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: The cigire cannot be there all of the time but, for the avoidance of doubt, the trade union will be there all of the time. This is the best defence a worker has and the best chance of vindicating people's rights at work. The Tánaiste pointed to the issues in the sector. Some of them relate to the fact that there are many migrant workers in the sector. Some of them also relate to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (2 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to research (details supplied); his views on the findings of the research; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53079/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (2 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: The question relates to a research paper entitled Inside Out Hospitality: A Study of Working Conditions in the Hospitality Sector in Ireland, which was published during the summer by Dr. Deirdre Curran of NUI Galway. The findings it contains are quite stark. They are very troubling. My questions are simple. Has the Tánaiste read the paper? Was he disturbed by what is in it? Does he...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Relations Commission (2 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it suggested that every time notification does not happen, there has to be a meeting of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment? That is not sustainable or fair, particularly to the workers in the fishing industry who are dependent on these arrangements. We are talking about breaches ranging from a failure to grant annual leave or a public holiday entitlement right up to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Relations Commission (2 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I absolutely agree; it is past time. The Minister of State said an update is something to consider. I agree on that. Perhaps he will, at the next opportunity, create a timeline for the update because these things tend to drift if a robust timeframe is not put in place. I am thinking about the necessary work done by the WRC, but the fact that there is no follow-up regarding prosecutions...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Relations Commission (2 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, is not informing the relevant agencies and departments of breaches of the atypical work permit scheme in the fishing sector. [53072/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Relations Commission (2 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: The question is, like all of my questions, very straightforward. I hope that the answer will be forthcoming. It is simply to ask if the Minister of State's attention has been drawn to the fact that the WRC is not informing the relevant agencies and Departments of breaches in the atypical work permit scheme in the fishing sector. I am sure that the importance of this scheme is not lost on...

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank my colleague, an Teachta Cullinane, for bringing forward this very important motion and join others in thanking not just our nurses and midwives but all the workers in our health service and those who have gone above and beyond during the Covid-19 pandemic to keep us safe. They went voluntarily into dangerous situations and to where we needed them to be to keep us safe. We can never...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (2 Nov 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if workers will have the right to request remote working before the end of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53076/21]