Results 20,481-20,500 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly
- Seanad: Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement: Motion (5 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: We are not.
- Seanad: Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement: Motion (5 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: One rule for the Senator and one rule for everybody else.
- Seanad: Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement: Motion (5 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: Thank you, Leas-Chathaoirleach.
- Seanad: Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement: Motion (5 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: Rubbish.
- Seanad: Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement: Motion (5 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: Bombast and bluster instead of facts.
- Seanad: Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement: Motion (5 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: Common sense is common.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: I appeal for an increase in funding for youth work. There are more than 40,000 volunteers in youth work agencies and organisations which do tremendous work with young people. Given the improvements in the economy, this area should receive particular attention, although I accept that money is not available for everything. I would appreciate it, however, if the Minister were to make...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: It is not Slab Murphy anyway.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: Yes, Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: I thought Senator Norris was bored with the budget.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: I will start by saying we had enough excitement with boom-and-bust budgets. Boring is good enough for me because the excitement of boom-and-bust budgets was not much fun for the many of our citizens who suffered as a consequence of them. I very much welcome the increased money for education. The importance of education to our future needs no further debate by me. People understand that....
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: There is money for the national maternity hospital, which is very important, and our new paediatric hospital. Again, we are investing in our future and our children. I agree with the provision of money for first-time buyers. I remind those in Fianna Fáil who have cried so much about this that they introduced a similar measure in the 1980s. I thank them as I gained from it when I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: Not at all. Houses are very expensive in Dublin and this gives young people an opportunity to get on the ladder. It is not always that a house is the first purchase, as it can often be an apartment that starts a young family on the ladder. People need to live close to where they work and much of the work is in Dublin. There is much work down the country as well, and that should be...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: I welcome the debate on the Bill and the Minister to the House. I have listened, here and via the monitor in my office, to what many of the speakers have said. There is a real appetite for reform and an acknowledgement that there are deficiencies in the Seanad as it stands, particularly in terms of what the report describes as elitist and one which disenfranchises so many of our citizens....
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: Well I am sorry but many people see it as elitist.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: I disagree. Again, Senator Norris chooses to interrupt people but greatly objects to those who interrupt him.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: He is still at it. All I have to do is keep encouraging him and he will keep doing it. The ninth recommendation of the working group talks about giving consideration to North-South Ministerial Council proposals; giving consideration to secondary legislation of the EU, which has been touched upon; consulting with relevant bodies prior to and during Second Stage debate, which I believe will...
- Seanad: UK Referendum on EU Membership: Statements (13 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: I welcome the Minister to the House again. I welcome much of what she had to say in her opening statement. Obviously, the prospect of the UK leaving the EU is a major risk to Ireland's economic recovery. The Government has taken this seriously. I imagine we will not know the full extent of the risks until the negotiation process is complete. Already, we have seen the impact of falling...
- Seanad: UK Referendum on EU Membership: Statements (13 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: At 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)
James Reilly: I welcome the various agencies and I thank them for the great work they have done over the past six years and in the years before that, but particularly during the difficult times of the downturn. The agencies have achieved phenomenal results. I also thank the witnesses for their presentations. Comments have been made about whether an allocation of €3 million is enough. I am sure...