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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (22 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I congratulate the Chair and wish him well in his role. I have no doubt he will do an outstanding job. I look forward to working with him and all colleagues. I had the privilege of being on the previous committee and I thought it was very good. We did our best, specifically in the sphere of heightening awareness and accountability among local authorities. I retrospectively salute my...

Seanad: Ireland's Economic Outlook: Statements (28 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The Minister is very welcome. It is good to have him back in the Seanad, and I thank him for his management of the economy, which has left us in such a shape and position that we were able to cope with Covid; deal with the outcome of the Ukraine war in terms of inflation and the effect on families, etc.; and be in a strong position coming into the Brexit scenario. His management of the...

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I am a Fine Gael Senator and spokesperson on finance. I have been on this committee previously and been spokesperson on foreign affairs so I am certainly looking forward to working with the Chair. I am delighted to welcome my friend and member of the Cavan diaspora, the Minister of State. He is part of our diaspora and we consider anyone living outside of Cavan to be in a less...

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: It might not just be germane to the proceedings. I welcome the Minister of State to this important discussion and brief. I had another meeting to do with staffing in the House earlier, which is of mutual interest to us all, so I could not leave that. However, this is a critical discussion. The Minister of State said this year the Department is allocating €16.5 million to...

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Some colleagues have referred to making it easy for people to come home. If I understand the Minister of State's brief correctly, and maybe he will clarify it, his role is more about liaising with the existing diaspora, making things better, working with them and alleviating difficulty than specifically trying to coax them home. Does the Minister of State have a role in that because Ireland...

Seanad: Situation in Gaza: Statements (29 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State and acknowledge the fact the Chair of the foreign affairs committee, Deputy Lahart, has been at most of this debate. As I serve on that committee, it is good that he is taking the matter so seriously. I acknowledge the Tánaiste as a politician who, from day one, has been strong on this issue and is not a newcomer to it. This is a story of depravity....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I want to raise a matter that is very important to the community from whence I come and the surrounding area. I am anxious that the Leader speak directly to the Minister, Deputy Peter Burke, on foot of this intervention. The Leader is aware that Wellman International, which based in Mullagh in County Cavan, has gone into examinership. The company employs approximately 240 people, many...

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank my party colleague Deputy Brian Brennan for facilitating me. A delegation from home is meeting a Minister. I will be as brief as I can. There is huge admiration throughout the country for the organisations, as evidenced by the three in four people who support overseas development aid. There is huge admiration for the work the witnesses organisations do and huge buy-in to it. It is...

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I personally think it should be done.

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: There was the issue of the cost-benefit analysis of USAID and debt. Is that door not fully closed?

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Has a study been done on debt?

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes. I will have to leave fairly soon after Ms McKenna answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our guests and my former colleague from college. It is good to see you again. It is worth saying at the outset that we are individually and collectively horrified by the genocide in the form of the bombing and the starvation and indeed the recent spate of illegal settlements in the West Bank. The focus on the West Bank has naturally been lost a bit, but that is a horror too. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I will keep going and I might make it yet. I will ask all the questions. Do these “jus cogens norms” mean there is a general binding nature there but that they are not absolutely binding? That leads to my second question, in relation to EU law under the Treaty of Rome. Is it not a term of the Treaty of Rome that EU law in the form of regulations and directives, etc., is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I can look at the blacks later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Could we facetiously say that if we were to apply moral criteria to the bonds and impose rules on them other than those associated with the prospectus outlined last week, we might have very few bonds? Where do we begin and end with this kind of thing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: It is simplistic to say this but bonds connected to cigarette or alcohol companies and bonds of several rogue states, for example, are killing people daily. How does this work in practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Dr. Nuseibah has answered. Ms Mahony will take up the other points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: With respect, it is normal practice to seek the Attorney General's advice. Once the Government appoints an Attorney General, it must seek the Attorney General's advice on legislation and has to go by it. What does Mr. Marmion say to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Will I have time? Does the Cathaoirleach know if it has started?