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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Concerning non-fatal injuries, a slight increase was recorded?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: We are not far enough into the year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I join the Chairperson in wishing Mr. Carey well in his new role. We look forward to hearing from him and working with him. As the first of his priorities, he said that Enterprise Ireland would ensure that the client is placed at the core of everything. That is incredibly important and I was glad to see it. Female founders in tech and founders of disruptive and novel technologies are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It has gone up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It is. The talent is there and the enthusiasm is there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The blocks really are there. I have spoken to some of these women and organisations like TechFoundHer are doing really good work. It is very refreshing that Mr. Carey has acknowledged that there is some work to be done there. It is good that there would be a focus on this area because without leadership it will not happen. While I am not speaking on behalf of all women, we tried sitting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I highlight those only because they were brought to my attention recently and it is an issue I had raised with the Minister in the last fortnight.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Would Mr. Carey consider engaging with some of them? I want to stress that they are not critical of Enterprise Ireland; in fact, they are very supportive of Enterprise Ireland. They say that Enterprise Ireland is very good at what it does but they just want to be able to work with it. Would Mr. Carey consider engaging with some of the founders who did not necessarily have a brilliant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to ask about expanding our base of exporting SMEs. We have an open economy and a significant trade surplus relative to our size. However, that is not replicated at the SME level. SME export levels are low by international standards. Approximately 6% of our SMEs trade directly across borders. The share of SMEs in total domestic value is also relatively low. Most do not export. A...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Absolutely. It is welcome to hear that and it leads me to my next question. Historically, we have not been brilliant at helping businesses to develop and grow into large corporations. There seems to be a feeling that is hit early. The State has a responsibility and a direct role to play in ensuring we help micro businesses to become small businesses, small businesses to become medium...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: We have the capacity. The ideas, companies and talent exist and there is an opportunity, but it requires an intervention.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: -----stay here and expand. Is it Mr. Carey's intention - I am not trying to bounce him into saying something - to establish a specific unit in EI or to simply shift around the focus a little of what is already being done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It would also be worthwhile to talk to the companies that sold up instead of scaling up to find out what drove that decision. In some instances, they will do so and perhaps no one can stop them, but anecdotally I hear, since no one is monitoring it closely, that some feel that they do not have an option because the support is not available for them to scale up. They sell up because that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of Enterprise Ireland (25 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome that. The difficulty is that when businesses sell up rather than scale up, the business and the workers employed by it are left at the mercy of new owners. That is not to say that just because it is an Irish business, it will necessarily stay here but there is a greater chance it will-----

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on the Finance (No. 2) Bill. Workers and families continue to struggle under a cost-of-living crisis, and businesses face into the continuation of what is effectively a cost-of-doing-business crisis. With the exception of a limited number of areas, the tax packages announced in budget 2024 will not deliver in a manner which...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (24 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a property (details supplied) can expect to be provided with high-speed broadband. [46074/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (24 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a property (details supplied) can expect to be provided with high-speed broadband. [46075/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (24 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the winter moratorium on disconnections applies to dwellings without planning permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46156/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Waiting Lists (24 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 489. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on day service waiting lists, that is, waitlists for children with disabilities who are waiting on speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and psychology services, by CHO and by wait length, in tabular form. [46634/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (24 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 500. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that a home care company (details supplied) is changing its cancellations policy whereby if a client cancels care at short notice then home care assistants will only be remunerated at 50% of their hourly rate instead of the full rate; if this is HSE policy or a private service provider policy; if it is the decision of the private provider...