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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...

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

Louise O'Reilly: On the withholding of information under the reporting on the operation of the Act, will the Minister of State outline why this is necessary? This is important legislation. The purpose is to protect human rights, to prevent arms from falling into the wrong hands and to assist in peace and stability. There is a need for some secrecy; I get that. With the exclusion of important elements from...

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

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister of State spoke about the necessity to protect certain sensitive information. As I am now referring to sensitive information, I ask the Minister of State for an anonymised example of what that information that would not be disclosed would be. To be serious, will he give an example of what type of information we are talking about that might reasonably be held back?

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

Louise O'Reilly: No, I understand that.

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

Louise O'Reilly: That should never be held back. I understand the point but I believe there is potential to strengthen it somewhere between the Minister of State's position and what I have proposed. I note confidence in the legislation is really important. I do not want to get into it now and would be content to withdraw this amendment - although we may reintroduce it - were the Minister of State to...

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

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State.

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

Louise O'Reilly: That is it.

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

Louise O'Reilly: That is fantastic. I thank the Minister of State.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I will withdraw both of these amendments on the basis of the commitment given by the Minister of State.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Deputy Stanton for raising this matter. Is it the Minister of State's position that this legislation will most likely have to be amended when the AI development-----

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

Louise O'Reilly: The one difficulty with that, which the committee heard about last week, is that to get things right sometimes the slowest movements move as fast. I understand that there are a lot of moving parts in this but I also understand that the area of AI has potential for negative consequences. It is not all positive and there is a substantial risk involved. AI moves much faster than we thought...

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

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 6: In page 33, to delete lines 28 to 33.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 7: In page 36, lines 25 and 26, to delete “to the appellant subject to such redactions”. This amendment is on transparency. I thank Deputy Barry for his support and remind him that it is entirely possible for him to submit his own amendments rather than to be disappointed in me deciding to withdraw mine but we can talk about that another day. Amendments...

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

Louise O'Reilly: Nobody wants to do that. We are all at one on that issue. The Minister of State has just said the Minister will be bound by the decision of the adjudicator. If the Minister is to be bound by something about which he or she does not have full information because some of it will be redacted, that is problematic. I welcome the offer of a briefing on this and we will take the Minister of...

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

Louise O'Reilly: I have one specific question. The Minister of State said that this reflects his thinking and that of the Department. I should have started by thanking the Minister of State's officials for all their work on this. I appreciate them coming in. Nobody is picking holes in this except to try to be helpful. That is all. I understand the amount of work that goes into it and I thank the...

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

Louise O'Reilly: For the ones that were not about State security, did they relate to commercial sensitivity? I cannot think of another reason. What would the other reason be?

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

Louise O'Reilly: That is fair enough. I am not trying to trick anyone; I am just trying to understand that.