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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (12 Oct 2023)

Neale Richmond: I will make three points on that. First, people are always open to challenge in the courts. We believe in that as a democracy and we have to accept that, even when an order is agreed by employers and employees. There will always be some who want to challenge for whatever reasons. Second, I acknowledge the rates in security are very tight but, again, it is the minimum. It is the floor and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Small and Medium Enterprises (3 Oct 2023)

Neale Richmond: I thank the Acting Chair and Senator O'Loughlin. It is always great to spend time with them and in the Seanad more generally. I was going to list out some of the Enterprise Ireland and IDA numbers for Kildare but the Senator has already jumped the gun on that so I will not repeat them. However, it is worth noting how sizeable and important they are first and foremost for the local economy...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Schemes (3 Oct 2023)

Neale Richmond: Officials of my Department have informed me that a submission to the public consultation to the Review of the Occupations Lists for employment permits was received by email on 17th August on behalf of the employer mentioned in the details provided. This submission was acknowledged by return email on 21st August 2023. My Department is actively considering submissions received to the public...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (29 Jun 2023)

Neale Richmond: I will reply to Deputy Stanton directly in that regard. In relation to any changes that may arise - I do not want to pre-empt that - I believe I can do so through a statutory instrument. On the situation in Canada, I attended a meeting of the OECD in Paris yesterday. I sat beside the Canadian minister responsible for small business and employment for two days and we discussed the matter...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (29 Jun 2023)

Neale Richmond: The priority of the section at the moment is the overall review of the critical skills list, which has just started. I have asked officials to ensure that the moment it finishes, by the end of August, that we will be able to work on this. I would like to be able to come back to the Deputy in the first week after Dáil recess with a definitive answer one way or another.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (29 Jun 2023)

Neale Richmond: There are a couple of good ideas there. I say to Deputy Ó Murchú that the Department would be more than happy to support foreign recruitment drives in any sector where we have a massive gap of talent, but in particular in this one. It has been done in the past, in the wider healthcare sector. We should all be supportive of bringing good, talented people into this country to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (29 Jun 2023)

Neale Richmond: I want to thank Deputy Murphy for raising this with me today, I know we had a good engagement on this issue just a few weeks ago and I’m happy to continue this today. Before I start I would like to put this discussion into context. In 2011, the minimum wage was €7.65 per hour. Today the full rate stands at €11.30, and we saw a 7.8% increase this year alone. This...

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Neale Richmond: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "Dáil Éireann resolves that the National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022 be deemed to be read a second time this day twelve months, in order to allow for further consideration of the Bill.". I wish to start off by sharing my sympathies with the family, friends and many...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Personal Public Service Numbers (31 May 2023)

Neale Richmond: I am pleased to take this Commencement matter on behalf of my senior colleague in the Department of Social Protection, Deputy Heather Humphreys. As the Senator knows, to apply for a PPSN an adult must generally provide valid proof of identity, address and reason for applying. The easiest way to apply for a PPSN is online at mywelfare.ie. To directly answer the Senator's question, as of 28...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Employment Support Services (27 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: Yes, Senator, and in more than ways than one. I thank Senator McGreehan for tabling a Commencement matter on this important issue. I hope that it is an issue I will be able to convey to my colleagues, so my Minister and three Ministers of State, how passionate I am about this issue not just, like the Senator, from the whole idea of equality and inclusion but also as a person who loves...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2023: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (26 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I thank the Deputy very much. I will try to address each of the points raised. The Deputy's first and last points come to the same conclusion, that is, how we attract people into the construction sector to build the homes we so desperately need, the roads, such as the one in Mallow, we so desperately need and so much else beyond. With regard to apprenticeships more specifically, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2023: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (26 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I thank Deputy Bruton and I appreciate that. It is heartening to see the increase in numbers of people opting to work in the construction sector. There are still a number of concerns. Only 9% of people working in the sector are women and we can do a lot more than that, if we look at other countries beyond the EU who have done so much to incentivise women into the trades and onto building...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2023: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (26 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: Definitely within the construction sector and more widely, the Senator is right that pay is not the immediate concern. We are setting minimum rights at a time that is very different perhaps from before. It is a time when the economy is going very well. Activity in the construction sector is as high as can be but it can and needs to be a lot more. When we are putting these thresholds or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2023: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (26 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: With the Chair's indulgence, we are seeing an increasing amount of certainty in the construction sector. People are going into work on jobs that are two, three or four years in duration on site. There are individual contractors, subcontractors and people working directly for developers and in-house. We see this not only in housing but in the commercial sector with large-scale building. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2023: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (26 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...In terms of job creation across the State, the mid-west region is doing well. We are seeing new jobs being created in every region and there is no Dublin-centric or urban-centric point of view at work. I recognise the crucial work of the Limerick Regeneration project. Its work has been going on for years and I know that Deputy Quinlivan has contributed to that, steadfastly, as a...

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I appreciate the opportunity to speak in this lengthy, wide-ranging debate, which has covered a topic that has been a subject of previous Private Members' business. It was a familiar topic to me and Deputy Durkan at meetings of the finance committee over recent years. Unfortunately, Deputy Conway-Walsh and I were not members of the committee at the same time but I appreciate that the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Monuments (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I am grateful to the Senator for raising this issue and for putting up with me responding to it. I do so enthusiastically, not just on behalf of my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, but as someone who, like the Senator, is a true-blue Dub and is proud of our nation's history and who, like the Acting Chairman, is an historian by background and has spoken on this matter as a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health and Safety (20 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...appreciate Deputy Buckley bringing forward this matter and for the contributions he has made before the House this evening, which are timely, appropriate and stark. First, my thoughts are with the workers who were seriously injured at the Stryker plant in Cork earlier this week, with their families, with their co-workers and with all those who know them. I can only imagine the shock...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Antisocial Behaviour (23 Mar 2023)

Neale Richmond: I thank the Senator sincerely for raising this timely and pertinent issue. It is an issue I am extremely interested in as the Minister of State responsible for retail and one about which I have serious concerns that affect all our communities. It is important to put a statistic out there. There are more than 225,000 retail workers in the State. It is the largest private sector employer in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (28 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: Much has already been done to improve the employment permit system and my Department is always focused on improving the service, with initiatives such as the Trusted Partner Registration system, and the introduction of the electronic employment permit and the Multi-Site General Employment Permit for Doctors. Waiting times for Employment Permit processing have been greatly reduced over the...