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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 452. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary and secondary schoolteachers that have contracted Covid-19 in the workplace by county in tabular form. [29679/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 453. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which the members of the Covid-19 expert panel on nursing homes established by his predecessor were selected. [29681/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 454. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concern amongst those that lost a loved one in nursing home (details supplied) that a person from the nursing home was appointed to the Covid-19 expert panel on nursing homes in view of the fact that the nursing home in question had received a number of judgments of being not compliant across a range of areas in a HIQA...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (13 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 455. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding in addition to the €10 million recently announced will be made available to facilitate the resumption of day services and enhanced home support services for disability service users nationwide. [29683/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (13 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 456. To ask the Minister for Health if a specialist multidisciplinary team will be recruited and established to deal with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. [29684/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (13 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 457. To ask the Minister for Health if decompression, fusion and re-tethering, treatments will be made available for patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. [29685/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (13 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 458. To ask the Minister for Health if an upright MRI machine will be procured for patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. [29686/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (13 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 463. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the working group to consider alternative approaches to the possession of drugs for personal use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29705/20]

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I am going just to nail this; there is nobody on the Sinn Féin benches that is anti-trade union.

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister of State is looking at a lifelong trade union activist.

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: My father was a full time trade union organiser and led a very strong union in this State. My grandmother was a shop steward with the Irish Women Worker's Union and my grandfather was a shop steward with the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, ITGWU. The Irish trade union movement raised me. I came in here and one of the very firm agendas I have is to further workers' rights and to...

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: At every turn, we are met by Fine Gael which stops us. It is never the right time to legislate to facilitate trade union recognition. It is never the right time to legislate for people to have a right to their tips or for a decent increase for people on the minimum wage. When the Minister of State talks about balance, is he referring to €2,000 for Deputies and ten cent for low paid...

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Teachta Munster for bringing the Bill before the House and facilitating this important discussion. It is timely that we are discussing organising, trade union membership and workers' rights because it is obvious to anyone who cares to look that this pandemic has shown up the way in which successive Governments have failed to safeguard workers' rights or ensure that workers' terms and...

Brexit and Business: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Brexit poses a huge threat to the economic future of the people of this island, with the land Border resulting in the North being forced out of the Single Market, with barriers to trade, potential devastation of agriculture, not to mention the potential implications for the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement. This is one area in which I am sure there is unanimity across this House...

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Deputies for tabling this motion. I read in a newspaper this morning, as I am sure the Minister did, that some of her colleagues are anxious to get rid of the image of Fine Gael as being the nasty party and she has the opportunity to do so here. The cut to the PUP, coming as it did at a time when advisers were being appointed to Government and some Deputies, although not me or my...

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I am looking at a list that was sent by our Whip's office. It states that the order goes from the sponsor to the Government, to the sponsor, and then to Sinn Féin, with Deputy Kerrane leading for us. That is the list and I think that is where the confusion is coming from. That came from our Whip's office.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: That is what we were sent.

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Microfinance Loan Fund Scheme (7 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 21. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 30 September 2020, the number of Microfinance Ireland rescheduled 616 performing loans which were restructured in March and April 2020 had their payment break restructured or further extended beyond 15 October 2020. [28984/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Industry (7 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance if measures are being examined to incentivise the purchase of new cars; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29037/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Aer Lingus (7 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) continues to refuse to sign social welfare forms for its workers in a breach of workers’ rights; and the steps she will take to resolve the matter on behalf of the workers. [29025/20]