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Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: I have read it out. Do you want me to re-read it? The Minister has moved amendment No. 9. Amendments Nos. 9, 24 and 34 are related and will be discussed together. The Minister is addressing it.

Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: Amendment No. 10 is in the name of Deputy Stanley. Amendments Nos. 10, 14, 32 and 35 are related and will be discussed together.

Personal Insolvency Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank Deputy Dara Murphy for facilitating me. I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Shatter, on his pioneering, comprehensive and realistic legislation. He has a major record as a legislator and this Bill adds to it. In congratulating him, I also congratulate the Government on this important legislation. Listening to Deputy Boyd Barrett brings one into a fantasy world and makes one think...

Personal Insolvency Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: It is about time he started to answer such questions. This legislation is vital to overall macroeconomic recovery in this country because it is necessary to get stability and normal spending going. Until people give a realistic proportion of their income back as repayment on overborrowing, there will not be spending, confidence and disposable income in the economy. It is a crucial part of...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes.

European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (7 Jun 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: I am delighted to welcome this legislation, which will put the European Stability Mechanism in place. It is extremely progressive and I salute our Minister for Finance for introducing it. He also avoided having to pay the €3.1 billion promissory note that would have had extraordinary implications for the country which would have involved the removal of real services for people. Those two...

Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: The principal of the Bill, that we should rationalise services and economise where possible, is sound. In this contemporary age of ICT, the use and availability of ICT and broadband for every function of Government and administrative situation makes the rationalisation of services a desirable possibility. It is desirable to pool resources and share services over a range of activities, such...

Private Members' Business. National Monuments: Motion (resumed) (23 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: It merits repeating that there is no question but that 1916 was a seminal event in our history. There is no question that the participants, in the main, were driven by the highest ideals and by heroism and both merit acknowledgement in a debate such as this. There is also no doubt that a number of them had a very romantic view of life but even at that they were driven by the highest ideals...

Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (16 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: I congratulate the Minister on the initiative provided for in the legislation. In contrast to the previous speaker, I believe it is more than a trifling matter and will have a considerable impact. I will elaborate on that issue presently. The Bill forms part of a strategy and sequence of actions taken by the Government that have put jobs to the fore. The jobs budget early in the lifetime...

Construction Contracts Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: I wish to share time with Deputy Andrew Doyle.

Construction Contracts Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: There is not a public representative in the State who could not narrate a number of horrific stories of subcontractors and the outcomes they have experienced when developers have refused to pay them, thereby placing them in a very bad position. I have dealt with a number of such individuals in my own immediate locality and have had heartrending meetings with a number of subcontractors who...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: Question 227: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action she will take to deal with the current backlog of carer's allowance and disability allowance applications, that are currently taking almost a year to process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22871/12]

Turbary Rights (1 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: With the exigencies of time I propose that we have two supplementary questions. I ask Deputy Tóibín to ask a brief supplementary question.

Turbary Rights (1 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: A brief supplementary question from Deputy Flanagan.

Turbary Rights (1 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: Deputy Flanagan must ask a question.

Turbary Rights (1 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: Deputy Flanagan, you have put the question.

Turbary Rights (1 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: Minister, the time has concluded.

National Monuments (1 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: That did not happen when I was in the Chair.

National Monuments (1 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: The Deputy should address the question.

National Monuments (1 May 2012)

Joe O'Reilly: I ask the Deputy to continue with this question.