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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I think it will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Ireland is evolving and changing. Who would have thought 20 years ago that we would all have mobile phones? Who would have thought when the ESB started that everyone would want an electricity supply given people were almost afraid of electricity at the outset? This process will change and there will be an enormous take-up. This is the future. We have a political imperative; the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: We are questioning the proposition, as is our duty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: We subjected the other witnesses, on all sides, to a similar set of questions because the report must reflect that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: When our guests talked about what they have to offer and the number of sites and masts they use now, I thought "That's great" but it is for a certain level of service. Net1 serves 4,000 in Cavan-Monaghan but the NBP will be for 540,000, which is very different. ComReg is putting a price of €1.8 billion on that and 5,910 new sites, according to its evidence. How does Mr. Gartlan react...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I would have wished to be able to rise today and join in the well merited praise and congratulations to the board of works and join in the valedictory remarks welcoming each other back, but sadly it is my duty to do something very different. To follow on from Senator Feighan's remarks, I wish to publicly and personally condemn the horrific and barbaric attack on Mr. Kevin Lunney from Quinn...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: With great respect to my good friend, Senator Higgins, who is well motivated on these issues, I cannot see the difficulty with the personal progression plan. The plan is to establish what the person's position is in respect of education and personal development, in the sense of self-confidence and self-awareness, or where the person is on that ladder, for want of a better term, and to try to...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: We would not want to flip that in the sense that most people act properly. We would not want to create a situation with respect to social welfare recipients where efforts are being made to create employment or educational opportunities for them and they would be able to use the word "reasonable" to avoid a level of personal responsibility or making a real effort. Therefore, it is a vexed...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Individuals.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: No, I am fine. I will leave it for now.

Seanad: Relationships and Sexuality Education: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: The Acting Chairman might indulge me by allowing me to welcome to the Gallery Ms Hannah Ferguson, a graduate student from California and a very interesting young woman who is studying dance and English.

Seanad: Relationships and Sexuality Education: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: She is receiving the highest form of tutelage.

Seanad: Relationships and Sexuality Education: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: The House might imagine who that might be.

Seanad: Relationships and Sexuality Education: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister. I was meeting an Irish Farmers Association, IFA, delegation earlier, but I am not surprised to hear my colleague, our educational spokesperson, Senator Byrne, say that the Minister indicated that he will be proactive in getting these recommendations adopted and the necessary changes made in to ensure an effective process of teaching right across the country in respect...

Seanad: Relationships and Sexuality Education: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Thankfully, it is a good news morning in County Cavan. I was delighted to listen to all the good news from Cavan on the way up the road. I congratulate Virginia International Logistics which has become the first haulier in Ireland to complete a zero-carbon HGV delivery to the Continent. The trucks are fuelled by compressed renewable gas, also known as bio-compressed natural gas to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: The second bit of good news from Cavan this morning is that Liberty Insurance is creating 120 new jobs in Cavan town. I joined my colleague, the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Heather Humphreys, in making that announcement. These new workers will join 143 people who are already employed in the company, which is now rooted in Cavan. It understands Cavan has good...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: A good initiative in yesterday’s budget is that we will start to move civil servants around the country. This is necessary from the point of view of carbon emissions and the housing crisis in Dublin. We have already had 680 applicants for moves in the first tranche of requests. Those are three pieces of good news today. I will have more tomorrow.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Implications for Ireland of the Withdrawal of the UK from the EU in Regard to the Education and Research Sector (9 Oct 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our three guests. It is an extraordinarily important area of discussion. Being from near the Border myself and involved in friendship groups etc., I am a strong exponent of North-South co-operation and interactions at all levels as a basis ultimately to create a united people and good working relations in the meantime. It is disappointing to hear from Professor Ferguson that...