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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I can only imagine the impact that has. Perhaps Ms Plunkett will outline for us the mental health impacts. In her evidence she described some of the impacts. Will she now share that with the committee? I will not get a chance to speak again but I must thank and salute Ms Plunkett. She is doing a very good job here on behalf of her union and on behalf of her colleagues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I had to step out earlier to make a contribution on legislation. I have been keeping up, however, and people have been live tweeting this session as well, which was helpful. I was able to keep an eye on what was going on. I have a question on health and safety in respect of these roles. This is a key issue we must focus on. A culture of secrecy has clearly been outlined, and it is guarded...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: It concerned an analogous grade we could point to as an example of where this is done right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms Ní Bhrógáin. It might be worthwhile if the committee investigated the analogous grades and how they are treated. In the little time remaining to me, I once again thank Ms Plunkett for the work she has done and for the light she is shining on this issue, because it is very important. I will leave my last few minutes to Ms Plunkett, if she might want to say some...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (11 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Road Safety Authority has met its requirements under the EU third directive on periodic training for all driver testers in driving skills, assessment and evaluation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24277/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (11 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 829. To ask the Minister for Health if child psychologists have been seconded by the HSE to do administration work for the vaccine roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24276/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason there is a backlog in the payment of the trading online voucher grants especially from the Dublin City Enterprise Board; if he will intervene to speed up this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23413/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the access to apprenticeship course run through Technological University Dublin (details supplied) which enables students to experience different trades in order to find their preferred trade, has a maximum income ceiling for the parents of applicants; if this will be removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23414/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (6 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 199. To ask the Minister for Health if future tax increases on alcohol or cigarettes will be ring-fenced for addiction treatment services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23415/21]

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank my colleague, an Teachta Ó Broin, for bringing forward this important motion. The motion nails the issue of the rental crisis, namely, the lack of solutions from successive governments, and outlines the only true solutions that can rectify it. We need to look past the statistics and figures to the fear, depression and hopelessness, particularly of our young people caught in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (5 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the current rates waiver will be extended; and the measures being taken by his Department to ensure any extension will not have an impact on the budget for Fingal County Council. [22878/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 127. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has engaged at European Union level regarding the waiving of intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines in order to speed up vaccination production and distribution across Europe and the wider world. [22791/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 551. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged at European Union level regarding the waiving of intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines in order to speed up vaccination production and distribution across Europe and the wider world. [22790/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 599. To ask the Minister for Health when persons in cohort 7 will receive their Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23022/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (5 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 601. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1103 of 31 March 2021, when the final report (details supplied) will be published. [23028/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2021: Waiver of Pre-legislative Scrutiny (5 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chairman. I thank both officials for the briefing they provided. It was very useful. I fully appreciate that this is an urgent situation. I am very concerned, as I think we all are, by the idea that hearings cannot now proceed and that an awful lot of people have been left in limbo. We teased out some of these concerns at our meeting but, for the purposes of the record, I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: We in Sinn Féin have been constantly raising with the Tánaiste and the Government the issue of sky-high, extortionate rents being paid by workers and families. The average rent in Dublin is now €1,745 a month, while the average across the State is in excess of €1,200. These rents are absolutely eye-watering, as is the €1 billion the State will pay to private...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Answer the question and do not try to deflect.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: This does not reflect well on the Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: The Tánaiste said most businesses will open. Most will, but some will not. Most workers who were in work in March 2020 will go back, which is fair enough, but some of them will not. Those workers are absolutely terrified by the date of 1 July because they do not know what is coming. We should bear in mind that many of these workers were doing the kind of work, facilitated by the...