Results 4,841-4,860 of 12,378 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Projects (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the agreement reached by the Spanish Government to trial a four-day working week under a small pilot project; if his Department is examining the matter and the possibility of introducing a similar pilot project here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16443/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Co-operative Sector (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 173. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will re-establish the cooperative development unit as a worker co-operative development unit in order to coordinate the existing worker cooperative network and to provide capital and technical assistance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16444/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 201. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 170 of 24 March 2021, the number of breaches to be relayed in relation to the NACE sector in which the breach took place by year in tabular form. [17466/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the FETAC qualification level currently required for driving testers at national driving test centres; the timescale required to reach the necessary level; if all current testers have the required qualification including all of the 40 new testers recruited recently to clear the driving test backlog; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 385. To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax debt warehousing scheme will remain available for businesses until the full lifting of all restrictions. [17264/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 389. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of debt that has been warehoused under the tax debt warehousing scheme; the amount of this debt from microbusinesses; the amount from SMEs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17406/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 825. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of crimes (details supplied) that have been recorded during the pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17267/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 894. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a competition (details supplied) which was due to go out to public tender in 2017; the progress in relation to the tender; when it will be published or retendered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16440/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 895. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a tender (details supplied) which was due to go out to public tender in 2017 has been extended each year since, with a further extension until May 2021; the way this was allowed to occur in the years before Covid-19; when the competition will go back out to public tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16441/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 896. To ask the Minister for Health the way that the successful company (details supplied) won a tender competition by providing a product without a specific feature on it given that other companies with products without the same feature in question were eliminated from the tender process for that very reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16442/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 1102. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to a company (details supplied) since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis by services provided in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 1103. To ask the Minister for Health if a copy of a HSE report will be made available (details supplied). [17266/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chair. I thank all the witnesses for their submissions and contributions. This proposed legislation is sponsored by me. I will not say it close to my heart, but it is a little bit. The Bill, as we know, arose from conversations during April and May last year regarding a request made by ICTU to introduce an amendment to ensure that Covid-19 becomes a notifiable disease. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witness. I ask the same question of the representative from ICTU, Mr. Vaughan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Vaughan is confident that the systems would be in place to be able to determine that. It is not credible to say that the amendment is not required purely and simply because it might place an administrative burden on someone or might be hard to prove, because the systems can be put in place to determine what has happened. We know, for example, that community transmission is a significant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: It is welcome that Dr. McGuinness is looking at it and towards introducing a fourth source of information, which is very important. If a fourth source of information is being contemplated, it is because it is necessary. The issues around administrative burden, etc., will apply in the circumstances where a fourth set of information is introduced. That is not a good enough reason not to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Does the Chair want me to come in? I am not sure how this works.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: To be clear-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: This legislation has been in contemplation for several months, I think since before the RIA was instigated. Notwithstanding that, I believe there is value in this debate, and I thank everyone for participating this morning and in using this to move forward. This was something that was raised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions with the Minister a year ago. It has been raised again and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: It used to be, but the regulations were changed in 2016. I cannot remember the exact wording that was removed because I am after putting my notes out of sequence. It is not currently, however, and that is why. The other issue is that-----