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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Tánaiste for his response. There are 491 jobs in the balance at the moment. That is 491 people with families, bills to pay, etc. I appreciate what the Tánaiste is saying regarding the appointment of the provisional liquidator. However, these people are in work today. They are looking at their collective agreement. They are looking at what happened to the workers in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not want to get into a slagging match about that but I am someone with a fair amount of industrial relations experience. I am not in the habit or in the practice of interfering in industrial disputes but I see a very clear role for the Government in this regard. I have spoken at length with representatives from Mandate. It is not good enough for the Tánaiste to simply say that he...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 91. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the Organisation of Working Time (Amendment) (Carryover of Annual Leave) (Covid-19) Bill 2020 which was introduced on 26 November 2020, which seeks to allow workers to carry over untaken annual leave which they could not take due to the impact of Covid-19; if his attention has been drawn to the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Again, this is a fairly straightforward question. It is to ask if the Tánaiste is aware of the Organisation of Working Time (Amendment) (Carryover of Annual Leave) (Covid-19) Bill 2020 introduced in November. It seeks to allow workers carry over untaken annual leave and to give them a legal right to be able to do that. This is leave accrued as a result of Covid-19. I am aware that in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: They may indeed refer a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission but they need a rest now and as the Tánaiste knows, it can take months, if not years, to get those complaints resolved. The purpose of the legislation is to reflect these extraordinary times we are in and while I respect the conversations he has had with employers and others with regard to them saying it is not a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 90. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that provisional liquidators have been appointed to a group (details supplied); and if he will engage with the workers and their trade union to ensure that, regardless of what happens, the company will honour the workers' collective agreement. [44124/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Before the hostilities break out, as they inevitably will, I want to take this opportunity to wish the Minister, the Ministers of State and their families and the staff in the Department a very happy Christmas and a safe and - fingers crossed - healthy new year. I know how hard everybody has been working and I am sure they are all, like myself and all of us on this side of the House, very...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 73. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has considered working with local authorities to establish hubs for remote working in towns and cities to facilitate new ways of working into the future. [34915/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ministerial Meetings (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 118. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to a commitment he made during Priority Questions of 10 November 2020, and further to correspondence from this Deputy and the office of an organisation (details supplied), if he will meet a representation of content moderators and their representatives and trade unions early in 2021; and if he will instruct his officials to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 147. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to update the legislation governing European Works Councils. [43822/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 154. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered additional grant aid support for the wet pub sector since it has been under enforced closure for nine months and has had to remain closed during the sectors busiest period of the year. [43824/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Aviation Industry (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 179. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties facing workers in an airline (details supplied) who are continuing to face difficulty in engaging with the human resources department of the airline regarding payments and entitlements. [43826/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay Commission (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 204. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will bring forward legislation this term to change the Low Pay Commission into a living wage commission; and if he will simultaneously expand the membership of the commission to include a representative of the living wage technical group. [30365/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has investigated the impact of the moratorium on redundancies on the workers and employers affected; and if he has considered changes to the primary legislation to allow workers who are on laid off or kept on short-time due to Covid-19, but who cannot claim their redundancy, to re-enter employment or undertake temporary...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 212. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has reviewed the correspondence provided by this Deputy to him on 23 November 2020, which was a follow-up in relation to his commitment given in the Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment on 18 November 2020 to examine the limitations of the Covid restrictions support scheme and which are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 295. To ask the Minister for Finance if couples who were due to be married earlier in 2020 but had their weddings pushed back due to Covid-19, will receive an entitlement to backdate jointly assessed tax. [44269/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Reform (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeline for the full unwinding of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest, FEMPI, legislation in relation to public service pensions by pension rate and band; and the timelines for unwinding the FEMPI Acts in tabular form. [44274/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 546. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has been in contact with yoga teachers with regard to the restrictions placed on indoor yoga due to Covid-19; and his plans to engage with them to allow yoga to proceed, in a safe and secure manner under level 3 restrictions. [44272/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 544. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has been in contact with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the restrictions placed on indoor training due to Covid-19; and his plans to engage with the organisation to allow artistic roller skating to proceed in a safe and secure manner under level 3 restrictions. [44270/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 545. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to allow swimming classes to operate within level 3 restrictions. [44271/20]