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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Youthreach is excellent but one would hope that the maximum number would stay in mainstream education.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I am not being patronising or messing when I say that I am genuinely impressed by the strategies, how the Department officials are going about implementing them and their enthusiasm for same.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: My final question relates to my previous one. It is something that Senator Noonan honed in on today and other days, namely, the idea of Traveller culture being understood or celebrated throughout the school. Perhaps this could be done through the curriculum or as part of special days in schools where there would be entertainment. Part of that could be music or song, both of which are very...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Great.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes, there is a lot of that.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I will finish with a comment. So much success has been achieved with participation in primary and the junior certificate cycle. From what the witnesses have told me, there is remarkably good participation in early childhood education, albeit with a deficit of 24%. Obviously, there are a lot of issues within that 24%. However, it is brilliant that so much has been achieved. Everyone...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: If the witnesses can achieve that, it will be remarkable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: That is very scary for my region.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: That will be fascinating. Does Dr. McDonnell agree that to deal with the housing issue, we must have a major infrastructural investment in water, energy and other areas to create the conditions where we can develop housing? I presume he agrees with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Dr. McDonnell said, however, that one of the limitations to infrastructural development is the lack of capacity and personnel to do it. He said we should make it easier to enter construction. How could we do that? Second, does he think we could attract people in the construction sector back from abroad? I also have another question I am very anxious for Dr. McDonnell to answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Should that be an immediate strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I have a son who puts that point to me every time I meet him for lunch. It is a very interesting one. Because it is the contemporary debate, could I bring Dr. McDonnell back to the question of the short-term measures such as energy credits? If I understand him correctly, he thinks the correct strategy is to target money at those most in need to cushion their passage through the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Does Dr. McDonnell think we should drop the plasters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Another factor is the kind of jobs Deputy Nash spoke about with temporary contracts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank Dr. McDonnell. That was fascinating in the context of the debate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: The Impact of Tariffs on the Irish Economy: Nevin Economic Research Institute (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank Dr. McDonnell. It has been fascinating to listen to his contributions and responses to specific questions this evening. It has been extraordinarily interesting. A very exciting issue arose in his response to Deputy Burke when he talked about attracting high-calibre researchers from America. That is a fascinating concept. The results of that could be great. To take a minor...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank Mr. O'Brien for coming before the committee. He is very welcome and it was a pleasure to chat with him outside for a moment also. Mr. O'Brien is more than aware that the EU is preparing a suite of measures that member states could take that would be acceptable to deal with the horror that is Gaza. Does it give us cover that there is a European-wide debate and discussion? Does this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes, but do the specifics of the initiative yesterday make it part of more global horror?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: It might make Irish businesses not seem different.