Results 3,781-3,800 of 5,184 for speaker:Joe O'Reilly
- 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...