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Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Brexit Issues (12 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 100. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if changes to the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020 to allow the migration of Irish securities from their current central security depository, Euroclear Britain and Ireland to the Euroclear Bank after Brexit would delay the settlement or transaction date on which...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Brexit Issues (12 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 101. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if the changes to the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020 to allow the migration of Irish securities from their current central security depository, Euroclear Britain and Ireland to the Euroclear Bank after Brexit will disrupt trading of certain types of securities being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (12 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with parents and secondary schools in Swords, County Dublin, on the shortage of secondary school places in the town; if additional modular accommodation and teaching staff will be provided for schools with significant waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36118/20]

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important and broad legislation. Most of my points about the Bill will be technical in nature and I will have some additional commentary about the state of Brexit negotiations. With regard to the sections of the Bill that pertain to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the issue of workers' rights, I will focus on the changes...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to raise the issue of the Debenhams workers and I know this has been raised with the Taoiseach several times. I put him on notice that we are going to keep raising it with him because the resolution of this dispute is extremely important. My understanding is the Taoiseach is in receipt of two letters from the Mandate trade union, a registered, recognised trade union, not a...

Regional Airports: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister spoke about the need to think long term. If we are to think long term about this we, and he as the relevant Minister, should reflect on the fact that none of our regional airports, or indeed the airport in our capital city, has a railway station, a light rail link or any other form of rail link. That is something we need to address because while connectivity is important, so is...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 29. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if legislation will be brought forward to ensure workers have a legal right to remote working following on from the publication of guidance for working remotely by his Department. [34903/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: This is another fairly straightforward question. It follows on from the publication of the guidance for working remotely. Will the Tánaiste consider bringing forward legislation to ensure workers have a legal right to remote working? At the very start of the pandemic, I got a phone call from a constituent who told me that on the day the restrictions were announced, five laptops were...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Maybe I misunderstood the Tánaiste. He said he wanted to initiate a conversation on the right to request remote working but we all have that right at the moment, although probably not in this job, admittedly. However, in most other jobs, bar those where the employee's physical presence is required, people can request it. The boss can just say "No", however. Studies show that...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I ask the Tánaiste to start by doing a very simple thing. We very rarely hear senior politicians or NPHET requesting employers to allow their employees to work from home. We hear a lot that employees should all work from home where possible but there should also be an onus on employers to provide this facility. We could spend all evening getting into why people's homes or apartments...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Safety (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 27. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many content moderators for social media platforms are being subject to serious psychological damage and injury due to being exposed to explicit content during the course of their work; and if his Department will engage with workers and social media platforms to address this situation...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Safety (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: My question is a straightforward one. It relates to people working as content moderators for social media platforms. I want to ask if the Ministers are aware of this new form of work and the fact that the people engaged in it are subject to serious psychological damage and injury due to being exposed to explicit content during the course of their everyday work, and if the Tánaiste will...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Safety (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: To expand a little on the kind of work that these people are engaged in, they are responsible for assessing user-generated content submitted to these online platforms. They have to look at videos and other content that users of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other platforms upload to see if it complies with the standards. I am not talking about the funny videos with headings such as, "I...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Safety (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Facebook is the largest of these platforms, and the one where most of the violence, and, indeed, disturbing content, is shared. The content moderators in Dublin have been outsourced. This is despite the fact that their work is essential. It is deemed essential by Facebook. It has to carry on and as the Tánaiste stated, artificial intelligence will only do so much. It will not do the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 48. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will be bringing forward legislation to ensure workers have a right to disconnect from their work outside of office and work hours further to the publication of Guidance for Working Remotely by his Department. [34917/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Industrial Disputes (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 92. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will engage with the liquidators of a company (details supplied) to encourage them to negotiate a mutually agreed settlement with the workers given the recent failure of the liquidator to engage in a commensurate reciprocal approach with the workers and their trade union. [34916/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Driver Test (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 60. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the industrial relations dispute between assisted driving instructors and the Road Safety Authority over the failure to allow the use of toilet and waiting facilities when learner drivers are undertaking their driving test; and if he will engage with the trade union (details supplied) of the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Health and Safety Inspections (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 90. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the reason to date the Health and Safety Authority has only carried out two return to work safely protocol inspections in educational facilities. [34919/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the national broadband plan will extend high-speed broadband to Portrane, County Dublin. [35264/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a report commissioned by his Department to consider measures to address the impacts of growing traffic levels in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford; when the report will make recommendations on the way to manage travel demand in each cities; if a final report recommending measures that should be most effective...