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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I accept Ms King's position on that and I am in some ways in soft agreement with her. There is certainly no one-size-fits-all solution here. The problem with legislation such as this is that that is essentially what we are trying to craft. Ms King referred to private employers earlier. She talked about the tightening labour market, and it is absolutely a tightening market out there. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Ms King again, possibly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: May I ask just one more question, Chair?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Where in the legislation are employers offered the ability to look only at a blended or hybrid working model as opposed to a full remote working model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I might return to the issue of employers restructuring and re-organising in the context of remote working. Where an employer has agreed to accommodating remote working for an employee and, subsequently, has a need for sick cover or maternity leave cover, how would that be dealt with? If I have given someone a contract that allows him or her to work for home and I am now stuck for cover in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Somebody who is working outside the office continuously may either complain of discrimination or seek constructive dismissal compensation if he or she claims to have received no advancement in his or her career and blames that on the fact he or she was remote working while other people were closer to the business decision-making and so on. I think we may have seen examples of this. Is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I do not want it to come across that I do not agree with providing the right to remote working. I think that if it can be explored, it should be explored and everyone should have the right to have it considered. Nevertheless, all the unintended consequences need to be considered, from the points of view of both the employer and the employee. If we are saying people will have the right to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank Ms King. The idea of a right to request remote work should be available to all workers but the microenterprises have to be kept to one side. I would like it to be noted that if ISME is putting in a submission, we should get sight of that. I would like to hear what the smaller business sector has to say about all of this.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is an average wait time for a contractor to be appointed in circumstances in which approval has been granted under the warmer homes scheme; if these wait times are consistent throughout the country; if the case of a person (details supplied) in this regard will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Mar 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the very long delays for persons applying to take driving tests; his plans to rectify the situation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11150/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cybersecurity Policy (24 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the increases in funding that have been given to the National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC, over the past 12 months; his views on the way the centre has improved Ireland's defence against cyberattacks on State infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10521/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (24 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the new rolling timelines for the provision of the national broadband plan; the steps that are now being introduced to ensure no further slippage to the schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10482/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Cybersecurity Policy (24 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the increases in funding that have been given to the National Cyber Security Centre over the past 12 months; his views on whether this has improved Ireland's defence to cyberattack on State infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10481/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason more felling licences are being issued to Coillte than to the private sector since the start of 2022 despite the significant backlog of private licences awaiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10649/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department is taking to significantly increase the number of afforestation licences being issued which is directly related to encouraging more farm forestry uptake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10650/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the overall private sector forestry applications made in 2021, broken down by afforestation, thinning, roads and felling licences; the waiting list per category as per December 2021, in tabular form; the new targets his Department has set for 2022 in the same category areas; the way performance in 2022 is performing against...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (23 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation to each higher education institution in respect of funds (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10197/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (23 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the proposed technological university of the south east to acquire staff and fund a campus in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10198/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (22 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 273. To ask the Minister for Finance further to correspondence from a person (details supplied), the tax recommendations he is proposing with respect to fixed-rate pensions, which in many cases have fallen in value significantly, versus the cost of living since they were awarded; if he will make a specific alteration to the tax treatment of such pensions in order that they may track and...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The preamble to the Bill suggests it will give effect to the implementation of Directive (EU) 2019/1 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 to empower the competition authorities of the member states to be more effective enforcers and to ensure the proper functioning of the Internal Market, ECN Plus, the European Competitions Network. Essentially it is aligning our...