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Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I appreciate the opportunity to speak in this lengthy, wide-ranging debate, which has covered a topic that has been a subject of previous Private Members' business. It was a familiar topic to me and Deputy Durkan at meetings of the finance committee over recent years. Unfortunately, Deputy Conway-Walsh and I were not members of the committee at the same time but I appreciate that the...

Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2023: Referral to Joint Committee (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft: Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2023, a copy of which has been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 5th April, 2023, be referred to the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in accordance with Standing Order 95(5), which, not later than 27th April,...

Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2023: Referral to Joint Committee (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: We can debate it tomorrow morning at the committee.

Appointment to the Policing Authority: Motion (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I move: That Dáil Éireann recommends, pursuant to section 62C(7) of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, that Anthony Harbinson be appointed by the Government to be a member of the Policing Authority.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I am extremely grateful to Senator Martin for raising this issue and giving me this opportunity to speak on it in the Seanad on behalf of the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly. The Senator will know from my long time in the Seanad and previously as a backbencher that this is an issue very close to my heart. It is one I have spoken on at great length more generally when it comes...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I am disappointed that the Senator finds little comfort in this reply because what we have here is a very clear determination from the Department and the hospital group to work to find those new facilities that the Senator rightly says are desperately needed for the people of Kildare and the wider midlands region. I disagree. Fundamentally, the clinic is staffed by brilliant people in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Monuments (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I am grateful to the Senator for raising this issue and for putting up with me responding to it. I do so enthusiastically, not just on behalf of my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, but as someone who, like the Senator, is a true-blue Dub and is proud of our nation's history and who, like the Acting Chairman, is an historian by background and has spoken on this matter as a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Monuments (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I assure the Senator that what I have laid out is a detailed process that has to be and will be followed by the Government and all the various stakeholders to realise this crucial project. While it does not include specific dates, it includes clear objectives that need to be met. If we were dealing with an ordinary construction project or restoration, we would have a clear timeline, but we...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is an independent statutory office under the aegis of my Department. The WRC’s primary functions include the inspection of employment law compliance, the provision of information on employment law, mediation, adjudication, conciliation, facilitation, and advisory services. The WRC has statutory responsibility for investigation and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: The regulatory agency with responsibility for batteries regulations in Ireland is the Environmental Protection Agency, which falls under the remit of my colleague the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications. Neither the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, or the Health and Safety Authority, has a statutory role for regulating the safety of batteries themselves. In...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Energy Prices (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: The Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme (TBESS) was introduced to provide financial support to companies that have experienced significant increases in energy costs. The scheme was designed by the Department of Finance and is being administered by the Revenue Commissioners, with funding coming from my Department. Government was concerned at the low uptake of the scheme and want more...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health and Safety (20 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta. I really appreciate Deputy Buckley bringing forward this matter and for the contributions he has made before the House this evening, which are timely, appropriate and stark. First, my thoughts are with the workers who were seriously injured at the Stryker plant in Cork earlier this week, with their families, with their co-workers and with all those...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health and Safety (20 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I fully accept the Deputy's bona fides on this. Having been alongside him for seven years in the Oireachtas, I have seen his commitment to workers' rights and to health and safety in the workplace, which has followed from his own long professional experience in this area working across the trades and much else. The assurance I will give the Deputy on the floor of the House is that whatever...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health and Safety (20 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: -----respect and appreciate the Deputy's bona fides. I acknowledge how well documented they are. I do not want to pre-judge anything, and nor should I while I am sitting in this chair. However, I will absolutely work with the Deputy on this. Where we need to and can bring it forward, I hope we can do so together collaboratively, because when it comes to an issue as important as workplace...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (20 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: The Employment Permits Section of my Department inform me that a Critical Skills Employment Permit application for the person concerned (details supplied) was received on 11thApril 2023. Applications for employment permits are dealt with in date order. The Employment Permits Section are currently processing standard new Critical Skills Employment Permit applications received on 31st March...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: Following the introduction of the Private Members Bill on Workplace Ventilation, which was not opposed by the Government, the Health and Safety Authority was asked to formally review the existing provisions on workplace ventilation and to determine what further enhanced measures could be considered. Following this review, it was decided to update the existing Regulations and to introduce a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Schemes (19 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: The occupational lists for employment permits are subject to regular, evidence-based review incorporating a review of available research and a public consultation which provides stakeholders with an opportunity to submit information and perspectives on the extent of skills or labour shortages. Submissions to the review are considered by the Interdepartmental Group on Economic Migration Policy...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (18 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I cannot provide interpretation or comment on whether TUPE regulations would apply in the event of any specific sale/transfer. The European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 131 of 2003) safeguards the rights of employees in the event of any transfer of an undertaking, business or part of a business from one employer to another...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Qualifications Recognition (18 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: In response to work undertaken by my Department and the Department of Health, access was provided to the General Employment Permit in June 2021 for the role of healthcare assistant.  The framework agreed with the Department of Health included the requirement for the employment to offer a remuneration level of €27,000 or more and for the permit holder to attain a relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (18 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I propose to take Questions Nos. 480 and 481 together. I cannot provide interpretation or comment on whether TUPE regulations would apply in the event of any specific sale/transfer. The European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 131 of 2003) safeguards the rights of employees in the event of any transfer of an undertaking,...