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- Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I thank our Chairperson, Deputy Quinlivan, and the secretariat staff of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment for all of their work on this report. In a time of climate change and energy insecurity, there is an opportunity for industry and coastal communities, working together, to develop a new industrial sector supporting regional development, creating thousands of...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Last week, I was contacted by the parents of a girl with autism who lives in Skerries. They were one of 32 families in my area to receive the devastating news that their child will not have a place in the ASD unit in the Educate Together primary school in September. This morning, I spoke to the girl's mother and to say she is devastated is an understatement. She is heartbroken, the same as...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: We fought it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: No. We fought it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chair. I hope he was not looking at me when he was issuing that warning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I am only joking. I wish everyone a good morning. I thank the witnesses for the evidence provided and for the work they do. I have had first-hand experience of dealing with their organisation. The staff were always efficient. They are good at what they do, and it is very necessary. I have a couple of questions. I will try to relate them to the points in the authority's submission if...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: That is what I wanted to say. It is not always a punitive thing. It can be an improvement thing as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Why do they not come into the courts system for a long period? Is it down to general delays?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Cullen. Point 19 relates to something that is a bit of a bugbear of mine. I refer to advance notice inspections. Are there specific sectors that will always get notice? I appreciate that the witnesses are saying they sometimes have to give notice and cannot be jumping out of the back of a van all the time. I am just wondering whether it is always in the one sector. What...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Talk to me about that. How long is the short notice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Yes, but outside of Covid compliance, Mr. Cullen is saying that as a general rule the authority would not announce inspections. When it is an unannounced inspection, do the officials find that people are a bit hostile? Does it make a difference if it is announced or unannounced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: That is good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: The authority would not be doing its job right if it was.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Yes. In Mr. Cullen's experience, when he says he needs to speak to the senior people who are there, is there a high level of compliance? If we take a hospital, obviously the authority is going to need to see senior clinicians. Does Mr. Cullen find there is any difficulty with that or are people happy to co-operate? Maybe "happy" is the wrong word. Are they content to co-operate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: How does the follow-up happen after the notices are issued? It is all very well for the authority to tell an organisation it has to do it, but does it know someone is coming back to check in a week, two weeks, three weeks, a month or whatever?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Okay. I move to points 24 and 25 on staffing. Will the officials give me a breakdown of how many of their total staff count are dedicated to carrying out inspections? They can express that as a whole-time equivalent or whatever way they want. A 14% vacancy rate was alluded to. That is not a small number given the seriousness of the work. Will the officials give us a breakdown of what...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Does salary pose a barrier when seeking technical expertise?