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Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I will not say I listened with amusement, but I listened with one eyebrow raised to Deputies talking about what happened in 2009. You would nearly think the accident and emergency departments closed themselves when we know it was the Minister's party, Fianna Fáil, that closed them. They did not close on their own, as appears to have been suggested. I also listened to the Minister's...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That is good to know.

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: High-performance computing is at the core of the fourth industrial revolution and is central to growing the Irish economy and securing next-generation foreign direct investment, FDI. Under the watch of An Taoiseach when he was higher education Minister, Ireland's national supercomputer, known as Kay, reached the end of its life last November without a new supercomputer to takes its place....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Information and Communications Technology (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 29. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the capital investment in computer and data infrastructure, by investment, in each of the years since 2011, in tabular form. [21990/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital investment in computer and data infrastructure, by investment, in each of the years since 2011, in tabular form. [21991/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our guests for the information they have given us. This is one of a series of engagements we are having on this subject. I am sure I will not be the only one to say it this morning but the more we know, the more we realise what we do not know. That does not mean we are not interested. It is an issue that the committee is taking a particular interest in, which is very welcome, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The witnesses referred to jobs that are skilled or semi-skilled. That is grand. However, for people who have an app on their phone, which is all that guides their day, the witnesses will understand the fear of that app being somehow empowered to hire and fire without any human interaction. While I respect what the witnesses are saying and understand where they are coming from, let us be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The committee is glad to have the witnesses here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I have one other question. I am conscious that my time is tight and I do not think I will have a chance to come back in again because I will have to leave after this. I have to chair a thing at IBEC. I wish to speak briefly about the importance of high-performance computing in co-ordinating cutting-edge research, developing AI, etc. Do our guests know that Ireland's national...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I would like to see the evidence linking that to improvements in living standards. Certainly, we will find ourselves in an increasingly difficult place until that supercomputer is replaced. The Chair is telling me that my time is up, so I will leave it at that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I know.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if temporary staff will be employed over the summer period in the Passport Office; if the office has a specific programme for the employment of persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21352/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regulatory Impact Assessments (14 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 23 April 2024, the reason neither his Department nor the SEAI engaged with the primary stakeholders, petrol station retailers, or the CCPC before SI No. 703 of 2022 implementing Article 7.3 of Directive 2014/94/EU was signed into law; his views on whether this is good practice; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (14 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 232. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on individual savings account schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21224/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (14 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance how many companies had failed to engage with the Revenue Commissioners as of 1 May 2024 when the debt warehousing scheme ended; the total tax debt owed by this cohort; the breakdown of this information, by division and by NACE economic sector, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21610/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (14 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 238. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of debt still warehoused under the tax debt warehousing scheme; the amount of this debt per division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21611/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (14 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of debt still warehoused under the tax debt warehousing scheme; the amount of this debt per NACE economic sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21612/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (14 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 240. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax revenue lost as a result of a company becoming insolvent, bankrupt, examinership or other, that had tax debt warehoused under the tax debt warehousing scheme; the amount of tax revenue lost, in tabular form; to provide a breakdown, by amount of tax revenue lost per business size and a further breakdown per division; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (14 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 241. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax revenue lost as a result of a company becoming insolvent, bankrupt, examinership or other, that had tax debt warehoused under the tax debt warehousing scheme; the amount of tax revenue lost; to provide a breakdown, by amount of tax revenue lost by NACE sector, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21614/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Support Services (14 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 261. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what supports are in place under his Department to assist a person with a disability to get back to work, including supports for entrepreneurs; and the organisations that might assist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21351/24]