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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (23 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Brien: The question was fairly broad in that related to Tipperary and Clare, which is a big area. I will take back the specific issues the Deputy mentioned around Nenagh, Roscrea and Newport and long-term sick leave. The issue around leaving stations vacant comes up in my area as well. Sometimes, the senior garda in the area says they are between a rock and a hard place. People want to see...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Wastewater Treatment

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: Since being elected, wastewater treatment has been a recurring issue raised by communities across Cork South-West. I am focusing on the issue of the wastewater treatment plant in Ballydehob this morning but almost every area of west Cork is feeling the pressure from crumbling water infrastructure. From an environmental and health perspective, the very least people should expect is the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputy for raising this critically important issue. The supply of public water and the provision of water services in general are matters for Uisce Éireann in the first instance. Uisce Éireann has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local level. The Minister has no function regarding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: It is nice to see Ms Breathnach again and I thank Mr. Hogan and Mr. Byrne for being here. I congratulate them on the work they have done on this. As they said, it is quite complex. It is very technical. We have to get our heads around it. The submissions we have received from the various interest groups have been positive in the main. One issue has come up in head 5 and that is to do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: Ms Breathnach may be aware that SIPTU also has another issue with respect to the cap itself. It maintains that it disproportionally impacts people on higher wages. I am not sure whether she is aware of that or seen that calculation. Can she comment on that? What are her views in this regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: IBEC is concerned about the uncertainty of whether an individual is an employee and how that can be proved. There are certain provisions in the legislation that will require an employee to provide evidence. Can Ms Breathnach comment on that? That is one of the only concerns IBEC had.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: Can Ms Breathnach give us an indication of the envisaged budget for this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: Another consideration SIPTU had concerned the time limit for the historical employer-deemed insolvent application. It recommends extending the time limit to six years. Does Ms Breathnach have a view on that? Has she seen that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: Maybe a compromise can be reached in this regard. The current time limit proposed is two years, is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: Maybe a compromise can be reached to extend it to three or four years. How many employees does Ms Breathnach envisage will be impacted and benefit from this new measure per annum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: I want to get back to the €600 cap. I have seen some stuff from SIPTU, for instance, where it talks about awards from the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, or the Labour Court. It reckons that the reason the salary cap awards are disproportionate compared to other such awards is that when one applies for the awards, it is because it was not the intention of the Act that it would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 (23 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: I thank Ms Breathnach and the Cathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will comment on some of the issues around the medicines management programme. For my own clarity, are these injections on cholesterol that we are talking about injections that would be undertaken by a clinician or is it something someone does at home?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. That seems to be more prevalent across a number of treatments in healthcare at the moment. Regarding the medicine management programme, I can only imagine there is a huge amount of innovation in this area. If doctors want to move a treatment off the management programme and make it more freely available, how long is that process?