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Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I meant it in the professional sense. She is a very eminent lawyer, and surely an eminent lawyer such as the Senator can see the illogicality of the position.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: It is a totally-----

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: The position does not stand up to logic. I want the Fianna Fáil Senators to think logically and reasonably. Assuming the amendment passes tonight, I have anecdotal evidence to suggest there will be amendments in the Dáil to restore the status quo. I have heard anecdotally that will happen. It could well be proposed from the Fianna Fáil benches. Do Senators realise that...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: There are three very important points. The amendment makes no sense. It is neither one nor the other.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: The one we are discussing.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I am referring to amendment No. 3b. It makes no sense. The second problem is that is a delaying thing, to the extent that common sense will prevail in the Dáil. Its illogicality will become clear, it will be reversed and it will come back here.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: We are a year on with nothing achieved.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: We are a year on with no progress made. The final reason the amendment is verging on the farcical is that what we are talking about here is a pilot scheme. We are proposing a pilot scheme.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: It is effectively a pilot scheme.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: It is a pilot scheme and-----

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: -----it will be monitored.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: Objective evidence will emerge. I say to the proposers of the amendment that it is time to see reason and withdraw it.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: We will make it twist.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Common Travel Area: Department of Justice and Equality (23 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: It is a great privilege to attend the first meeting of our select committee on Brexit. It is a very important committee because Brexit is an issue for many people. In the part of Ireland that I come from there are 30,000 journeys across the Border on a daily basis for work, social and education reasons so it is of huge significance there. It is a great privilege to be at this committee and...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Common Travel Area: Department of Justice and Equality (23 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: Will this work? Can this be successfully done?

Seanad: Reports on Motor Insurance Costs: Statements (22 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State and I congratulate him. I commend the fact that he has really grasped this issue. He is making it a big priority in his Ministry and I wish him well with that. Despite competing commitments at home, I stayed on to contribute to this debate because I wanted to say this to the Minister of State and also because this issue is of huge importance to the people in...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: An Ghaeilge agus Breatimeacht: Díospóireacht (21 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I dtús báire, ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh ár gcuairteoirí. Tá an comhrá an-spéisiúil. Ní smaoiníonn muid go rialta ar an tslí ina gcuirfidh Breatimeacht isteach ar ghnáthdhaoine thart ar an Teorainn ina ngnáthshaolta. Tá sé an-tábhachtach smaointiú air sin agus rud a dhéanamh faoi....

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: Given I have an unavoidable long-standing prior commitment tonight, I would like to join with colleagues in expressing sympathy to the family and friends of Martin McGuinness and to the Sinn Féin Party.It is a reasonable definition of leadership to say that a leader should be fit to embrace change, identify the need for new directions when appropriate and bring people with him or her in...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I will leave it at that. I had wanted to address another public issue but I will wait until tomorrow.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: At the outset, I wish our women colleagues here and women all around the country a happy, productive and satisfactory International Women's Day. Following Senator Humphreys, I am very proud to have been a Member of the Oireachtas and part of the last Administration which brought in gender quotas. It was very significant legislation and very important for women. It was important to help...