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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Co-operation in Communications Technology: ERNACT (3 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. We will have a summation from the deputation and then I will respond at that stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Co-operation in Communications Technology: ERNACT (3 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes; that is no problem. I thank the witnesses for their very worthwhile presentations. It has been a very interesting discussion and it is extraordinarily relevant. This is one area we should be working on to give real effect to and create a real peace dividend. As we all know, it is a serious problem in rural Ireland and it must be worked on in a collaborative way as much as possible....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Co-operation in Communications Technology: ERNACT (3 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Of course; that is no problem. It is a good point. Ultimately, we will arrange to have the Minister or senior officials come before the committee to discuss the implementation and an actual product. Furthermore, we will raise the matter at the North-South Ministerial Council. Effectively, we are saying to the witnesses that they have not wasted their sweetness on the desert air. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Cross-Border Co-operation in Communications Technology: ERNACT (3 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Thank you, Senator, for your assistance. We will do so. Thank you all very much, collectively and individually.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Support for Family Carers on the Island of Ireland: Carers' Cross-Border Consortium (3 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: It is my great pleasure to welcome the Carers' Cross-Border Consortium. The delegation includes Ms Rosaleen Doonan from the Carers Association; Mr. Sean Caughey, the Carers Trust Northern Ireland; Ms Maria Mulligan, volunteer and social worker; Ms Jennifer Van Aswegen, Disability Federation of Ireland, and Ms Siobhan McEniff from the Health Service Executive. They are welcome to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Support for Family Carers on the Island of Ireland: Carers' Cross-Border Consortium (3 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I want to join others in welcoming the witnesses because what they do is very important. I sincerely apologise for having to leave earlier. I had to deal with an unavoidable situation but I will not bore them with the details. I join Deputy McLoughlin and the Chairman in their comments, and I am glad there will be a proactive response to the witnesses' submission, which I look forward to...

Order of Business (9 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: When is it proposed to bring forward and enact legislation to implement the recommendations of the Cooke report on GSOC? This is obviously critical to bring a satisfactory conclusion to recent events and restore confidence in the police force.

Topical Issue Debate (10 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: If Deputy Dowds will agree. He is normally a very helpful individual.

Topical Issue Debate (10 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Very good. We will move to the second Topical Issue with the helpful co-operation, as always, of Deputy Dowds.

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Amalgamation (10 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: In fairness, we should revert to Deputy Dowds who had the first indicated topical issue.

Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Grant Administration (10 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Which Minister will take the third Topical Issue on behalf of the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton? It is the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, Deputy Sherlock. Is Deputy Lawlor happy with this?

Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Grant Administration (10 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: The Minister of State bought an extra one.

Topical Issue Debate: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (10 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Deputies Seán Crowe, Dara Calleary, Finian McGrath, Thomas Pringle and Brendan Smith have ten minutes in total to make an initial statement but in any event each Deputy has two minutes and will speak in the order in which I have named them.

Disability Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I join others in congratulating my colleague and friend, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, on his appointment to the position of Minister of State and wish him well in the role. I know he will bring his great depth of professional experience working with young people and his political experience to the role and he will do an outstanding and committed job. I also welcome this...

Disability Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: It needs to be revisited.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Expenditure (17 Sep 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: 585. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the overall amount of expenditure this year on free legal aid; the procedures that are in place for controlling costs; the case of persons who avail of this service more than once; the amount of money that is spent on second and subsequent cases; the steps, if any, that are made to recoup moneys spent on free legal aid clients; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Contract Issues (17 Sep 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: 906. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of a private consultant who works in a public hospital, the percentage of their patients that can be private; the percentage of the income that they earn from private patient consultations that is given back to the hospital in which they work; the overall percentage of moneys owing by private consultants that has been collected by the general...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (17 Sep 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: 908. To ask the Minister for Health the details and the total cost of the action plan seeking funding for inpatient and day surgery which was forwarded from Cavan General Hospital to his private office; the number of patients; the exact speciality that would benefit from this funding; and if funding is approved, how quickly can this plan be implemented; the access targets for in-patients-day...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: When I and other Members of the House go around our respective constituencies and hold advice clinics, one of the perennial complaints we receive from people in business, farmers and various interest groups is that they are overregulated and that the EU has imposed too much regulation. I have never met, and I am never likely to meet, someone who would not accept the need for the most...

Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the legislation. The objective of the Bill is to provide for the dissolution of the Irish Sports Council and the National Sports Campus Development Authority with their merger into the new Sport Ireland body. It designates Sport Ireland as the national anti-doping agency. The legislation allows for retaining the current master plan for the National Sports Campus. Those are...