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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: No, and we are not putting that on the witnesses’ shoulders. I remarked on it because it is very rare and it was nice to see.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Blackspots: Discussion (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It needs to drive it. Many Traveller organisations and disability representative groups receive State funding and employ people from their own community. That is not where our focus should be, however. Our focus needs to be on ensuring that people enter the broader workforce as well. Obviously, these organisations need staff, and staff with experience and life experience is really...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to start by offering my condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of Aoife Johnston. I have read sections of the report and your heart would break in half listening to what happened to her parents. It must have been awful. As the report said, the family felt powerless amid all of the chaos of accident and emergency all around them. My grandmother died in accident and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Priorities (24 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 123. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is planning to protect Ireland's equity capital market and to support the large number of professional services firms and jobs that are dependent on the presence of a vibrant domestic market. [37817/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Priorities (24 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance the way we can ensure that Irish capital markets can prosper and compete with other EU markets in the case that proposals for an EU Capital Markets Union are finalised and implemented. [37818/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (24 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 519. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that patients in Beaumont Hospital A&E who are left on chairs awaiting admission do not have access to pillows or blankets; if he will ask the HSE to ensure that these are provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37819/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: We are steadfast on this.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister hit the nail on the head. That is the point I was making. We want people to be able to stay there. The vast majority of people in Balbriggan who are of working age and employed leave. They leave in the morning to go to work. They are not employed locally. There is an issue with underemployment that the Minister will be aware of. Even the report refers to towns like...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to help grow the Dublin-Belfast economic corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30131/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister will be well aware of the DCU and University of Ulster report that outlined not just the challenges, of which there were loads, but also the potential for the development of the Dublin-Belfast economic corridor. I would welcome an update from him on the work of his own Department in this regard. If I could be a small bit parochial relating to himself and myself, I would be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister. Specifically, I am interested in knowing the work of the Minister's Department. I appreciate his response but a lot of that was focused on how people get out of Fingal by train and other public transport. I would appreciate if he could focus on how people can stay, and specific actions from his Department with regard to growing. What that report identified was huge...

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I commend an Teachta Clare Kerrane on bringing forward this policy and Kathleen Funchion for the work she has done in this area. Access to affordable childcare is a game-changer. I hope the Minister knows that. He certainly has not delivered but an Teachta Kerrane has the plan and the ideas - €10 per day per child. That is exactly what parents need. They need certainty and they...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the judgment. In future, I hope the Minister will listen and take heed of what Teachta Doherty is telling him because once again he has been proven right. He was not alone. The Government was warned repeatedly that the inevitable outcome of its challenge would be this money being returned to the State. The reputational damage done by the wrong-headed Government, with the support...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Four years as Minister for Health.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for the information they have brought with them. In the final paragraph of his written submission, Mr. Smyth asked for time to conduct the review. What kind of time is he looking at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Is that work under way at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay, that is interesting. Let us imagine that tomorrow morning the Minister picks up the phone and says he is minded to abolish sub-minimum rates of pay, that all of them should be gone and he wants to do it. Would the Department do that via this legislation or would Mr. Smyth feel it necessary to draft the Department's own legislation? If there is a difference, the witnesses might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I appreciate that but sometimes we discuss legislation here and we are mindful of potential knock-on consequences. Are there no stumbling blocks other than it being subject to legal advice? I am not asking for a specific legal opinion. Ms Pyke's instinct is that it would be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Exactly, and that is my view as well. I sometimes think that, with legislation, less is very often more. The more you put in, the more likely it is you could be tripped up. The opening statement states, "the incidence of sub-minimum youth rates may increase during recessionary periods". That happens because things are tight during recessionary periods and employers will, by necessity...