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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I ask the Cathaoirleach that we do this. It would be very interesting if we were able to sit down with a folio, a folder or an information sheet with great detail on each authority, as the witnesses perceive each authority's performance and its implementation of targets. If we had this, nothing would prevent us cross-referencing it with what the Department is saying, if we so wished. Mr...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: We cannot accuse people in the wrong. If we had the perspective of the witnesses on each county, we could make good use of it. We would be professional in its use and it would not be for public consultation until the witnesses would wish it to be.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Ms Brack thinks we would see detail in it.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Anything the witnesses decide to provide in order that we have their perspective would be helpful.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Mr. Joyce and Ms Brack could liaise with the secretariat and the Cathaoirleach with a view to getting us this information. It would be useful. Nobody would use it ridiculously.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: We have to get the action of course.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I could look at the counties in my region and see what they say officially to us and what the perspective of the witnesses is on them. It would provide a very interesting contrast. Deputy Buckley raised a point on modular homes. There is great underuse of modular homes in this country. I met the then Minister of State, Deputy English, whom the witnesses referenced earlier, to visit...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: It was part of the response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis, and a crisis it was, but that is not the brief of the committee. Of course, this crisis impinges on every other need. Modular homes were a big part of the response to this. If they were good enough to respond to that crisis, why not respond to this crisis with modular homes? A number of the questions asked by Deputy Stanton...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I apologies for interrupting but if people could see them. I was astonished. When I went and saw the show houses they were extraordinary.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: That is fair.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I was held up on other business, so I missed what was said earlier. However, I wish to be associated with the words of sympathy to the family of Tras Honan. I had the privilege of serving in the Seanad some time ago with Tras Honan. She was a very distinguished person. She was a person of great eminence, great quality in her own right and great integrity. She had a real presence and...

Seanad: Restoration of Oireachtas Library and Reading Room: Motion (28 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank and congratulate Senator Michael McDowell for bringing forward this issue. It is his vigilance that has brought it to our attention, and it is typical of him that he would be concerned about such an issue. We are grateful to him for this. He has done an important service tonight. This cannot go under the radar. I happen to have the privilege of working alongside in this House...

Seanad: Restoration of Oireachtas Library and Reading Room: Motion (28 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I join in congratulating the Minister and, as she said, her officials on bringing forward this legislation, successfully piloting it through the Houses of the Oireachtas, and on the fact she is totally proactive and able to announce today that the agency is being set up, formed and actioned. That is so important. I am all too painfully aware that sometimes things like this can remain on the...

Seanad: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Now.

Seanad: Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State. It is a particular pleasure to do that, having served with him at the Council of Europe in the past. I salute how avant-garde he is and how much he is embracing this whole area, leading out on it and ensuring we are at the front in the area of regulating the use of AI both in the positive and controlling senses. I welcome our joining of the global...

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit agus tréaslaím go mór leis an méid infheistíochta in áiseanna spóirt atá déanta i rith na bliana. Chomh maith leis sin táim go láidir i bhfabhar na físe don todhchaí. I welcome the Minister of State. We are neighbours. I hope that will be reflected in the allocations to come and he...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister to the House. The proposed legislation is very welcome and timely. He is to be congratulated on that. As this is Second Stage, I will make a couple of initial general comments before getting more specific. It is worthy of stating, and should be acknowledged, that we have made great strides in reducing cigarette smoking in the population and the culture of acceptance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our visitors. Like my colleagues, I thank them for the work they do and note, as the previous speaker did, the risk and dangers their people experience. I will make an attempt to cover all areas or facets of the presentation. Mr. Rajasingham spoke about Afghanistan. I was invited recently to speak at a seminar on Afghanistan so I got to know a little more about it did previously...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Does Mr. Rajasingham feel that his UN office is succeeding and making progress there?