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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: You might laugh, Taoiseach, but you are not in the White House now. Get up.

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Deputies for bringing forward this motion and giving us the chance to have this important debate. Here we have another day and another U-turn. Today's U-turn sees Fianna Fáil move even closer to Fine Gael. At some point they are going to have to acknowledge that there is virtually no difference between the two parties. We have come to expect the hawkish views of Fine...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Income Inequality (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 73. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to address economic and social inequality in 2025 in urban and rural areas; the initiatives he will undertake within his Department; and if he plans to progress funding for same. [14510/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Income Inequality (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: My question, as is my form, is very straightforward. Will the Minister outline the plans that he has to address the economic and social inequality in 2025 in both urban and rural areas? What specific initiatives will he progress? If he could confine it to this year, I would be interested to know the scale of the ambition for the Department in terms of deliverables, KPIs and any indicators...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Income Inequality (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister. I do not want to be argumentative, and I am absolutely committed to working across the House to ensure that we address issues regarding inequality. While I thanked the Minister for his reply, there were no specifics in it and this is where my issue is. What we need to see is, for example, a target for the number of community centres. We all know that a community...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Income Inequality (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: This is where we might have a small disagreement, because I absolutely agree with the Minister that it has to be community-led, but setting the targets will not interfere with that in any way, shape or form. The setting of targets actually gives a focus. The Minister was not doing the communities any favours when he suggested that they could work not to a deadline or a target because they...

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the progress of this Bill. I thank members of my own and other parties and specifically Deputy Kelly for keeping this issue firmly on the political agenda for the past number of years. I also thank the Minister's officials for facilitating a briefing with the Opposition earlier this week and for taking our questions. It is very important to remember that what brought us here was...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 90. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on the new rural development plan given that the current plan, Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025, expires in 2025. [14509/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Urban Development (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 108. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports available for local authorities in developing 'Town Centre First Plans'; how these plans will be funded; the number that have been progressed; and how success is measured in implementation of these plans. [14508/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Participation Networks (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 122. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to address the need to resource and future-proof the public participation network by ensuring adequate core funding and staff resourcing to meet their workload. [14513/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 134. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will consider an initiative to enhance skill building in communities without a community association or centre. [14507/25]

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: In this Chamber, we talk a lot about accountability but we know this Government, made up of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Lowry group, has shown itself to be absolutely allergic to accountability. In the election campaign, both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael told us they would hit a figure of 40,000 homes, even though they were told repeatedly by their own experts that this figure was...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: -----and all of the changes to Standing Orders in the world will not alter that fact. To collude in an absurdity like that does the Office of the Ceann Comhairle no favours and I suspect the Ceann Comhairle knows that herself. The actual Opposition has tabled an amendment to the motion and I urge Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and indeed, the Lowry group, to consider this amendment, which...

Support for Householders, Businesses and Farmers Affected by Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Storm Éowyn made landfall in Ireland on 23rd January, 2025, breaking all-time record wind speeds; and — the scale of damage and disruption to transport, energy, water, telecommunications and internet services was unprecedented, exposing the fragility of our infrastructure, in the face of an ever-worsening climate...

Support for Householders, Businesses and Farmers Affected by Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister and everyone who contributed to the debate. I reiterate my thanks and that of my party to every person who stepped up and responded in the aftermath of Storm Éowyn. I want to respond to some of the Minister's contribution. We will work with the Minister, and right across the Dáil, to ensure future responses are fit for purpose and that those very famous...

Diverting Young People from Criminal Activity: Statements (2 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I proudly represent a diverse constituency that is also one of the youngest in the State. The Minister of State talked about community engagement and the need to foster positive behavioural change. I agree with him. Positive behavioural change is definitely a worthwhile goal for our young people. It is also a worthwhile goal for members of An Garda Síochána. I draw the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (3 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for being here to take this Topical Issue. I represent one of the youngest and fastest-growing constituencies in the State in Fingal West. Many of my constituents are served by the train, which runs alongside the side of my constituency, and some by bus. Unfortunately, for my constituents, most of the existing transport routes only bring them in to town. They...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (3 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I am very annoyed. MetroLink does not serve my constituency. Neither do DART+ west and DART+ south west. The only DART+ project that will serve my constituents is DART+ coastal north, which has been a very long tale. I do not have the time to tell it all, but suffice to say that it has been a decade since the bridges were raised. A little like draining the River Shannon, it gets wheeled...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Services (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 252. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of an Eircode where there is currently no dwelling; if the presence of an Eircode indicates that a dwelling is permitted there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15124/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the challenges faced by persons with debilitating conditions who are wheelchair users and who are reliant on public transport to get to appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15125/25]