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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 249. To ask the Minister for Health how Traveller Primary Health Care Workers employed by Section 39 agencies through the HSE can be awarded the special pandemic recognition payment given their frontline status during the pandemic and their work carried out in clinical settings for the HSE such as mobile vaccination and testing clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50451/23]

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I very much welcome the opportunity to speak on this important legislation. Sinn Féin will be supporting it on Second Stage but intends to table amendments to strengthen it on Committee Stage. The vast majority of these amendments will be aimed at implementing the recommendations of the enterprise, trade and employment committee, as laid out in the pre-legislative scrutiny report it...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the issue of remote working. Last week, I met representatives of Dublin Chamber. They are becoming increasingly concerned about the delay in publishing the code of practice. It is not an inordinate delay but there is something of a delay nevertheless. As it stands, work patterns are being established by people who are concerned that when the code of...

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Israel is committing war crimes; there is no doubt about it. It is slaughtering journalists, aid workers, civilians and thousands and thousands of children. I wish to read a piece from an email I got yesterday from a concerned mother. She wrote: I took my baby into bed every night while parents in Palestine took their babies into a grave. Please, for the love of God or whoever you...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses. As I am due to speak in the Chamber, if I leave the meeting it is not through any lack of interest on my part, it is due to a requirement to be elsewhere. My question relates to progress on target 8.2, which is to “Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: There is a large cohort of non-exporting SMEs and as Dr. Coates rightly points out, many of them are not exporting because they do not want to, they serve a local market. In terms of the development work being done to identify those that are not currently exporting but that are not part of that not-exporting and will-not-be-exporting cohort, are there targets? Targets are set in the White...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Target 8.8 is to "protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment." Will Dr. Coates provide an update on the level the WRC inspectorate will stand at from January 2024? I know additional funding for inspectors was provided in the budget but how will it leave...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: On the number of inspectors, how will we stand in January 2024, when we take into account retirements and new hires? I know there was money in the budget but how will that leave us in terms of numbers of inspectors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Excellent. Specifically, I want to know how many there will be on 1 January. One of the few things certain in public sector jobs is that, on the day a person starts, they know the day they will finish. There is nothing more certain than a retirement day. Can we get a picture of what retirements will look like for 2024? That is not to name any individual; it is a function of their age,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It does. It is a tricky area. There have to be rules but we have to respect each state’s right to control what happens within its own borders as well. I want to speak briefly on the sectoral employment order, SEO. The construction SEO was issued in 2021 and enacted in 2022 but we also know the challenge was withdrawn by the security industry once the minimum wage increase was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I refer to the actual orders themselves. It seems as if every SEO necessitates a trip to the courts. Is the Department looking at any way to prevent that or to minimise that happening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: They are but that is the problem. It is only a small number of employers who are delaying it for everybody else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I refer to the cynical way the challenge to the security SEO was dropped, almost in the same moment as the recommendations came out from the Low Pay Commission. You could clearly see the difference of 20 cent. It is not going to go to court for the sake of 20 cent. It should be on the Department's radar to strength the SEOs to limit that challenge. We cannot take away a person's right to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It is more about the generality, not specifically one case, although one case was reported in the media. We know there are cases separate from that case and possibly separate from what is happening in Gaza right now. In general terms, does Dr. Coates think the Unfair Dismissals Act is sufficiently robust to provide protection for workers who wish to express a view? We have spoken about how...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (14 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance if interest payable on phased payment arrangements for tax liabilities owed under the tax debt warehousing scheme will be made tax deductible, as is the case with bank loan interest. [49443/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (14 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance the money owed to Revenue due to overpayments arising from the employment wage subsidy scheme, by sector, in tabular form. [49947/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (14 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance the money owed to Revenue due to ineligible businesses accessing the employment wage subsidy scheme, by sector, in tabular form. [49949/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (14 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the money owed to Revenue due to overpayments arising from the temporary wage subsidy scheme, by sector, in tabular form. [49948/23]