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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I make my point respectfully. There is no equivocal position here; one cannot have two positions. The fact that the property tax is modulated and graduated achieves what the delegation has cited. Why would the delegates not come out and support it unequivocally and unambiguously? Such leadership needs to come from all sectors if we are to get to a new place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: With respect, we are here to be frank with one another. It is no good if there is not a co-ordinated position whereby one says what might not be popular with everyone but what is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: With respect, the debate will be over at the time. This should have happened months ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: That is a fair point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: However, it has been improved on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: With respect, it would be helpful if this had already been done. I am not being smart, but that should be in the mix, or we should get off the fence - one or the other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: It is one factor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes, but in this instance there is no avoiding the question. None of us can avoid the issue. One cannot be on both sides of the argument. I missed the presentation, but if I understood the document correctly, I agree with the stated need for job activation. We should not treat jobseeker’s payments as a paternalistic welfare payment to keep the poor at bay and to keep them fed and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our panel of speakers. I apologise for unavoidably missing their initial presentations but I will read their written submission and look forward to hearing their responses later. The speakers are an important part of any debate we have on this issue. Any debate about economics, the future of Europe and so forth needs to be tempered with a focus on building society and on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes, counties, and specifically the county in which I live, the main employer is agri-related food processing, and the entire agriculture industry is centred there. We have to work on the green energy agenda. It has to be central, and we have to sustain that. We have made great progress on developing a culture of recycling in this country, and that has resulted in great progress being made...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: 210. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the ESB treats meter readers as self-employed deeming them to be on a contract of service PRSI Class A and due to this, they are denied their statutory rights, that is, redundancy payments and all other social protection entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41771/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: It could be too late for an intervention for them. The social housing initiatives, however, will absorb some construction workers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: We need both.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I join the Chairman in welcoming the delegation, many of whom have been personal friends and colleagues for a number of years. I thank them for their presentations. I subscribe to their objectives, which I will develop later, but I begin by asking about the reference to a territorial approach to the management and in terms of the Europe 2020 objectives. Councillor Richmond stated that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Report: Northern Ireland Community Relations Council (9 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the witnesses and I thank Mr. Osborne for his presentation. Two issues are predominant in the presentation and are obviously critical to getting a post-conflict society, to use the terminology. First is the question of integrated schools. The Northern Ireland Community Relations Council document states: The Good Friday Agreement had provided the integrated-schools movement with...

Protection of Children's Health (Tobacco Smoke in Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I join in congratulating and commending Senators van Turnhout, Crown and Daly on their efforts. I also commend the Minister on laying this legislation before the House. He is particularly passionate about this issue, his passion arising from his experience as a general practitioner, GP. It is great that he is using this opportunity as a politician to address what he knows from general...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (7 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I believe India and China are a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (7 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome all our visitors and thank them for the presentations. I share Deputy Byrne's pride as a Government Deputy, and we are from each of the coalition parties. We have seen much achievement in the area of job creation, with unemployment now down to 11.1% or 11.2%. We are making massive strides in that area, with 31,000 new people at work in the past year. We are extremely happy about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (7 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes; I am coming to that. The people wishing for sensationalist, populist and other reasons to misrepresent our policies - the idea that we have adopted austerity as a happy ideological position - must know we are far from that. We adopted our policies with a view to putting our people to work and we are delighted that it is happening. I accept the Chairman's interjection, and he is right...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Rule of Law in the European Union: Discussion (7 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: It is disturbing-----