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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, but that is for an exemption. When the Government and others say we need to move to the living wage, we do not need to move to a situation whereby there can be exemptions from it. That is slightly different. That is something on which some work will have to be done and the recommendations thus far from the LPC have been moderately paced, or slow, depending on how someone looks at it;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Is the Department setting targets though? I do not suggest that good work is not happening but if it is not being measured and there is not something to aim for, I fear we will be back next year having the same discussion, which is not good enough because other countries in the European Union can do this and we seem to be falling very far behind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Sometimes where the public sector goes, the private sector follows but sometimes it does not unless there is a target and a push on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: -----which means all that is needed is reasonable accommodation. We also need that culture shift, which requires the Department to be proactive. I hear what has been said and I understand the Ministers are committed, which is welcome. I also wish to ask about productivity among our indigenous SME sector and the Department's commitment to improving managerial skills. Is the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: It does.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether motor tax discs, and other motor discs, should go paperless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34539/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on changes to a grant system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34540/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the €750 million in non-core expenditure listed as "other" in the summer economic statement (details supplied); and the monetary value of funding from that non-core expenditure which will be set aside for the temporary business energy support scheme. [34510/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 103. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will encourage the management of a company (details supplied) to engage with pickers and drivers and their trade union regarding the imposition of a new work schedule without dialogue or agreement. [34538/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 213. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied), who has been on the list for residential care since 2010, can expect to be offered a residential care place. [34430/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not think I will take all of my seven minutes, as I have to speak in the Chamber. I apologise for that. I have one question about research, development and innovation, RDI. Committee members will have heard me ask this a million times because it is something I am very exercised by. We know that a lot of analysis goes on and countries shift around. We are moving in the right...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: There has been no increase in terms of the overall amount that can be drawn down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: What about clustering?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I know, but there was a dip in the money for the innovation voucher. Would that not be remedied by an increase in the amount available? Maybe I am wide of the mark on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: When it works it creates a very good ecosystem. I apologise, as I have to go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: That is something I learned this morning. I was listening to the radio and learned that most people who are living with a disability are not born with a disability; they acquire it. This means it may be someone already in the labour market-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Did the issues facing the Tesco.com pickers and drivers come up during the work of the social dialogue unit? Some months ago Tesco Ireland announced a decision unilaterally to impose significant changes to the rosters of Tesco.compickers and drivers. These are the workers who fill the orders when people place an order online. The move, which workers and the Mandate trade union have...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (11 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of one-stop-shop SEAI energy retrofit providers refusing to undertake initial energy rating assessments for works of less than €30,000 under the guise of being bound to only undertake works that deliver a BER of B2; if this is permitted in law; and if not, the steps he will take to address this...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 241. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost of increasing the funding for the Green For Micro Programme by 10%, 20%, and 25% [34326/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 242. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost of increasing the funding for the Green Start Programme by 10%, 20%, and 25%. [34327/23]