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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (8 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 783. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that can be taken to prevent residents in a domestic dwelling slaughtering animals in their front garden; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17437/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (8 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 784. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will list the penalties that can be applied to persons who engage in the unlicensed slaughter of animals in domestic dwellings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17438/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: What happened to house prices?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The position will not be backfilled with someone who held a previous position then.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: No backfilling.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Here we go.

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I will briefly address the issue raised by the Minister of State, Deputy Murnane O'Connor. I do not for a moment underestimate the scale of the challenge that she might be facing in terms of the obesity epidemic. With the greatest respect, however, I would doubt the relevance of it to this discussion. For any parents watching who perhaps are with their child waiting to go in for surgery...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (1 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 2 o’clock I thank the Minister for his response. The reason I raised this issue is I have a concern about the nutritional quality. Parents cannot control the quality of the food, although they can select from the menu of options. Concerns have been raised about the traceability of food and labelling such as "pasta sauce". At the end of the day, the companies that are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (1 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: On Tuesday this week, I attended a presentation on the meals on wheels network. There was a representative from the Minister's office there as well. The network is absolutely fantastic. Day in and day out, the volunteers do a really good job. It is not just a food delivery service but they are really conscious about the quality of the food. They have a more hands-on approach. They are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (1 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: There are 190,000 children in Ireland today classified as at risk of poverty. Child maintenance is essential. I find it incongruous that although child maintenance is absolutely essential, it is included in assessments for some necessary supports. I welcome the Minister’s words. I hope he will work with me across party lines on this matter. No one will disagree with the idea...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (1 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: We will consider this as part of the work programme if I have anything to do with it. The Minister rightly highlighted that it is confusing when different methods of assessment are used. While he said there are sometimes valid reasons for this, there are actually no valid reasons for including child maintenance in assessments. The louder we say that and the more people we say that to, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (1 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Certain groups of people, including seasonal workers and school caretakers, in particular, are excluded from pay-related jobseeker's benefits and allowances. Seasonal workers are every bit as unemployed when they are not working; it is just that they are unemployed for a specific period. Will the Minister give some consideration to including those people, who we rely on and lean on in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (1 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: On carers.

International Workers’ Day: Statements (1 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I would like to make a brief comment. I would like Deputy Lahart to correct the record. He stated that the minimum wage had consistently gone up. Of course, it has gone up many times, as recommended by the Low Pay Commission, but it was the Deputy's party, Fianna Fáil, that cut it. It is not true to say that the minimum wage has always gone up. It was cut by the Deputy's party in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (1 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for being here to discuss the Topical Issue concerning the need for primary care services for my constituency of Dublin Fingal West which is, as I am sure the Minister of State is aware, one of the fastest growing constituencies in this State. We also have a very young profile; we do not necessarily fit with the profile of the rest of this State. There is no...