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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the scheme for businesses impacted by kerosene price increases will go live; and if it will be expanded to businesses impacted by liquid petroleum gas and liquefied natural gas price increases. [31537/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: When will the scheme for businesses impacted by kerosene price increases go live and does he plan to expand the scheme to businesses impacted by liquid petroleum gas and liquefied natural gas price increases?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artificial Intelligence (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: We had a very good session on AI at the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment last week. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan raised the issue of jobs being displaced. I would have a particular concern about jobs being displaced by AI. Effectively, we are talking here about a platform worker who has not necessarily been sacked but who, because of the way the algorithm works, does not get...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unfair Dismissals (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on strengthening the redress available under section 7 of the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 to employees unfairly dismissed from their employment. [31680/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unfair Dismissals (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: What are the Minister's views on the redress available to workers who have been unfairly dismissed according to the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977. To be fair, the Act is nearly as old as us, although I do not include the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, in that, and it is definitely due a re-examination.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unfair Dismissals (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I said "as us". I was including myself.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unfair Dismissals (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: My problem with the redress available under the Unfair Dismissals Acts is that some employers, especially large ones, can dismiss workers if they see them as troublesome, awkward, annoying or whatever, and they can take a chance because they know the likelihood is that, at a time of full employment, the employee will be re-employed and all the employer will be on the hook for is four weeks'...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unfair Dismissals (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: That is welcome. If the Minister is looking for case studies, he could look at the case of the Murphy 4, who were dismissed from Murphy International Limited in Limerick in circumstances they say arose from their trade union activities. It is my opinion that if the redress under the Unfair Dismissals Act had been more appropriate, that could have acted as a deterrent in this instance and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Industry (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will convene a meeting of large food companies and large food producers considering the information in the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission high-level analysis of the Irish Grocery Retail Sector report which outlined that profits for this sector were significantly higher than profits for supermarkets. [31678/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Industry (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Following the publication of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, high level analysis of the Irish grocery retail sector report, will the Minister commit to convening a meeting of large food companies and large food processors regarding possible profiteering in the sector?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Industry (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I am on record as having welcomed the establishment of the agrifood regulator. At the beginning of March the European Central Bank highlighted that corporate profiteering was contributing to price rises, as firms are using inflation as an excuse to increase profit margins. To be clear, I am raising this issue on behalf of consumers and also on behalf of retailers and primary producers....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Food Industry (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: The French Finance Minister recently convened a meeting of several large food companies to discuss the price of food items and he managed to secure a pledge from firms like Unilever to cut prices. It is astonishing that it has not been done here. I think it should be done. The Minister will talk about the agrifood regulator and I have said its establishment is very welcome. However, the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Inflation Rate (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on European Central Bank data that corporate profiteering is contributing more to inflation than wages, and similar data from the Central Bank of Ireland’s quarterly report that profits have contributed more to domestic inflation than wages; and if he believes that profit restraint will have a key role in reducing...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he can provide an update as to when the WRC Code of Conduct for remote working will be published. [31536/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Information and Communications Technology (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 45. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given to the establishment of a Departmental forum on AI in the workplace, comprising experts in the area and trade unions representing workers whose employers use automated systems to monitor workers, to better understand how firms deploy automated technology for worker surveillance. [31538/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (29 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the free schoolbook scheme is supposed to be applied by schools; if she is aware that some schools using the scheme are still charging parents for other school supplies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31889/23]

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important report. Its results, like those of previous EPA reports were, unfortunately, greeted with a sigh of resignation across north County Dublin. It is nothing we have not seen before. For many years, people have been raising their voices to highlight the dire quality of bathing water in Balbriggan. The State and Fingal County Council have...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Yesterday, I was with the Iceland workers in Talbot Street. They turned up for work on Monday morning only to be told that they had been sacked and that the shop is closing. They are owed wages and holiday pay and have no idea when they are going to get either. The examinership process is under way, but it is not acceptable that they have been left in limbo while workers in other stores do...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 3: In page 12, to delete lines 20 to 24. I will address why I have included this. The Minister of State is correct that there is broad support. Amendments Nos. 3 and 6 are broadly similar. All my amendments relate to transparency. I do not know whether there has ever been a more important time for us to address transparency, since everybody is talking about...