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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (12 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 70 and 71 together. To achieve sustainable, diversified growth, and enhanced economic resilience, it is vital that the Irish-owned enterprise sector fulfils its potential to scale and succeed on global markets. The White Paper on Enterprise sets out an ambition for 2,000 additional Irish-owned exporters by 2030. To help achieve this ambition, Enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: I can confirm that I received a proposal for a new Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for the Security Sector from the Labour Court on 4 June 2024. This will now be given due and timely consideration. If I am satisfied that all legal requirements have been met, I will make an ERO giving effect to the proposal.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency represents Government policy on the issue of collective redundancies following insolvency. The report mentioned was in response to particular terms of reference which were quite narrow and specific and do not address the generality of redundancies that arise in insolvency situations. Nevertheless, the recommendations made in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: I can confirm that I received a proposal for a new Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for the Security Sector from the Labour Court on 4 June 2024. This will now be given due and timely consideration. If I am satisfied that all legal requirements have been met, I will make an ERO giving effect to the proposal.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: I can confirm that I received a proposal for a new Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for the Security Sector from the Labour Court on 4 June 2024. This will now be given due and timely consideration. If I am satisfied that all legal requirements have been met, I will make an ERO giving effect to the proposal.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: Ireland has robust mechanisms for the determination of the employment status and the Government is committed to tackling false self-employment wherever it occurs. Where an issue arises in relation to the employment status of an individual, cases are forwarded to Revenue, for taxation purposes, and/or the Department of Social Protection, for PRSI purposes, for investigation. This is undertaken...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 237 and 238 together. The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is an independent, statutory body under the aegis of my Department, established on 1st October 2015 under the Workplace Relations Act 2015. The WRC’s primary functions include the inspection of employment law compliance, the provision of information on employment law, mediation,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is an independent, statutory body under the aegis of my Department. The WRC’s primary functions include the inspection of employment law compliance, the provision of information on employment law, mediation, adjudication, conciliation, facilitation, and advisory services. Employees or former employees can submit complaints to the WRC for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: I can confirm that I received a proposal for a new Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for the Security Sector from the Labour Court on 4 June 2024. This will now be given due and timely consideration. If I am satisfied that all legal requirements have been met, I will make an ERO giving effect to the proposal.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: I can confirm that I received a proposal for a new Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for the Security Sector from the Labour Court on the 4th June 2024. This will now be given due and timely consideration. If I am satisfied that all legal requirements have been met, I will make an ERO giving effect to the proposal.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Homeless Accommodation (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: This is not a matter for the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment. The Department of Health, the HSE and the Department of Housing are committed to working collaboratively to enhance access to healthcare and drug treatment services for people who are homeless. The Department of Health has allocated dedicated multi-annual funding of c €47 million to the HSE for the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: I can confirm that I received a proposal for a new Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for the Security Sector from the Labour Court on the 4th June 2024. This will now be given due and timely consideration. If I am satisfied that all legal requirements have been met, I will make an ERO giving effect to the proposal.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: The proposal for a new Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for the Contract Cleaning Industry was received from the Labour Court on the 22 April 2024. After consideration by the Minister as required by legislation, it was approved by the Minister for Business, Employment and Retail on 21 May 2024 and came into effect on 1 June 2024. Employment Regulation Orders do not have retrospective effect.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (11 Jun 2024)

Emer Higgins: There has been no delay in signing a new Employment Regulation Order (ERO). Minister Higgins received the proposal for a new ERO for the Security Sector from the Labour Court on the 4th June 2024. This will now be given due and timely consideration. If Minister Higgins is satisfied that all legal requirements have been met, she will make an ERO giving effect to the proposal.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (30 May 2024)

Emer Higgins: Review and consideration of sectoral submissions on the topic, as well as further consultation with the relevant stakeholders, has been conducted by my Department to conclude the transition from the atypical working scheme and to establish the conditions governing the fishing sector's access to the employment permits system in a structured and well managed manner. I am informed by...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (30 May 2024)

Emer Higgins: The purpose of the Emergency Humanitarian Flood Relief Scheme administered by the Red Cross on behalf of my Department is to provide urgent funding to small businesses (up to 20 employees), community and voluntary organisations affected by flooding who were unable, through no fault of their own, to secure flood insurance. The Scheme provides a contribution towards the costs of returning...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister for Health, the Minister. Deputy McEntee, and the officials in both their Departments who worked on this, the Office of the Attorney General, the Oireachtas health committee, my fellow members of the Joint Committee on International Surrogacy, which was a special committee put in place to look at this, especially its Chair, Deputy Whitmore, and my colleague, Senator Mary...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Emer Higgins: It would make logistical sense if this could be dealt with in the District Court. This was something we discussed at length in the committee, and it came up again and again from an access and accessibility perspective. I welcome what the Deputy said about cost because while my preference is that this be heard in the District Court, my higher and ultimate preference is that this is done in a...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Emer Higgins: I know we are getting towards the end of the Bill, so, speaking on the amendment, I take this opportunity to thank the Minister, the Minister, Helen McEntee, and their officials for all the work they have put into legally recognising surrogacy in Ireland. I served as the Vice Chair of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on International Surrogacy and, under the stewardship of Deputy Whitmore and...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Emer Higgins: Yes, I will get to the amendment in a moment. Utilising, as I said, the lived experience and the legal knowledge of colleagues across that committee, including Senator Mary Seery Kearney, with the help of campaigners and expert witnesses, who gave powerful testimony, we put together a very comprehensive report, which has informed the Bill, and from which many amendments that were tabled...