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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I have no objection to that.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Thank you, Chairman. I will stick on my timer.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, it is for ten minutes. I thank the witnesses for attending. I thank them for the work they and their members are doing in what some would describe as challenging circumstances and I would describe as disgraceful circumstances. They are no less worthy of applause than other front-line workers. On the point raised by Ms King on making Covid-19 a notifiable disease, I welcome the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: When Mr. Ennis says workers were allowed back into the workplace, that sounds like a place they were dying to get back into. Can Mr. Ennis explain what happens in such a case? Are the workers afforded an opportunity not to go back into the workplace or is it the case that they have to go back?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it the case that we are nowhere near a turnaround time of 24 hours?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: The good news is that we have had expressions of support from at least one party in the Government on that. Here is hoping that it gets done. As some will know, my father used to organise workers in the meat factories in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is shocking that those conditions do not appear to have improved and in fact, if anything, have gone the other way. I am struck by the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry to interrupt Ms Labo, my apologies. I ask specifically about language specific information that is made available to people relating to Covid-19 and the precautions.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: We know it is a diverse workforce but the available information is not available in a diverse range of languages. We can hear that. Would Mr. Ennis and Ms King like to comment on the remarkably high levels of asymptomatic cases considering we have a 10% infection rate among meat and food processing workers and yet we appear miraculously to have some of the highest asymptomatic...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Should the people running those companies be compelled to close? I note that the Minister for Health over the weekend, fairly unhelpfully, offered a personal opinion on the closures but that is all it was. Is Ms King saying that we should have the capacity to shut individual plants quickly, test and get the workers back to work quickly? That is not happening at the moment.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms King and will conclude on this point, which was mentioned to me last night when I was out canvassing. I met a lady who threw her eyes up to heaven and asked if there was anything to be said for another beef tribunal. We will see.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: It might be worth it.

Adjournment of Dáil: Motion (30 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: It is not agreed. I have already written to you, a Cheann Comhairle. The Data Protection Commissioner has expressed concerns about the practices in Dublin Airport and I believe it is appropriate for An Tánaiste and the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to come into the House next week and take questions and answers and not just statements. Furthermore, it has...

Adjournment of Dáil: Motion (30 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I have proposed that the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and An Tánaiste come into the Dáil on Tuesday and take questions and answers on what is going on in Dublin Airport and the concerns raised by the Data Protection Commissioner, and that we adjourn when that is concluded and reconvene on 1 September.

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I wish to speak briefly to this section and the new section that would be introduced by amendment No. 9, if that is okay. I spoke previously about the concerns that were raised - nobody will be unaware of them - about access for trade unionists to the workplace. What this global pandemic has highlighted, particularly for those of us who are trade unionists, is the need for workers to be...

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: It was remiss of me not to congratulate you publicly, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, although I did so in person. I am delighted. You were not elected because you are a woman but it is good that you are nonetheless, and I wish you the very best in your new role. I know that you will be impartial and fair. I also know that you will be firm so I will just have to deal with that.

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: My amendments were ruled out of order. They referred to facilitating the establishment of workers' co-operatives. In the North, Scotland and across Europe, workers' co-operatives and community co-operatives are very much the norm, but they are not the norm in this country. It is a very good way of working. I read in the newspaper recently about a co-operative of migrant workers who came...

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: The amendment I sought to make was on tactical insolvencies, an issue that has been raised by other Deputies. I take the point the Minister of State made about the Minister, and it is very good to have the Minister of State with direct delegated responsibility for this issue in the Chamber but it is not unusual for the Minister and the Minister of State to attend. My comments were directed...

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Stick to the points of the legislation.

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry, we are here to debate the Bill.

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Before I make my contribution on the legislation, I want to put on the record again my dissatisfaction with the fact that the Tánaiste, Deputy Varadkar, is not here. The Minister of State will know that we were not happy previously when the Tánaiste did not attend. Today, again, he is not in attendance. This is a pattern. On the previous occasion on which I spoke on this, I...