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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the First Report of the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight on Orders of Reference and Establishment of Committees, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business without debate; and No. 2, motion regarding the proposed approval by Seanad Éireann of a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I am happy to accept the amendment proposed by Senator Keogan and seconded by my neighbour and colleague, Senator Sarah O'Reilly. I will revert presently to the substantive issue raised in the proposed amendment. I thank colleagues for their many and varied contributions on a range of issues, all of which were pertinent and topical. Senator Ní Chuilinn raised one of the biggest...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Of course not. Please do.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I concur with that. I welcome the students. It is great to have visitors here in the people’s House – it is their House. I return to Senator Boyle. As I said, I was a member of Cavan County Council for 20 years. Senator Sarah O’Reilly followed me onto Cavan County Council some years later, and she may tell me, formally or informally, if this continued to be the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Paul Brady has brought honour and distinction to himself and his family, to Mullahoran, to Cavan and to Ireland in handball. I wish him well yet again. He is teaching in a school where I previously taught in Cavan town, St. Phelim's school. He is a wonderful asset to that school and to that community because of his sporting prowess and his being a wonderful role model for young people. ...

Seanad: First Report of the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight: Motion (8 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders— (1) the Select Committees as contained in the report of the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight entitled ‘First Report of the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight on Orders of Reference and Establishment of Committees’, laid before Seanad Éireann on 7th May, 2025, are hereby...

Seanad: International Trade and International Relations: Statements (3 Apr 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Tánaiste and thank him for his clear, focused leadership in this area. When you look at a challenge, you look to the built-in resilience you have to deal with it. We have that built-in resilience, in that we are attractive for investment given that we have industrial peace, an educated workforce, a budget surplus, full employment and a rainy day fund. We also have a...

Seanad: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (26 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: No, I think my colleague Senator Nelson Murray is using her own time.

Seanad: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (26 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I will see how I go.

Seanad: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (26 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: My colleague will probably be called immediately thereafter. I concur with the latter remarks of Senator McDowell. It must be almost a respite for the Minister of State to get into this House for a while. I welcome him. Not only does he have family in my area who are particularly good friends of mine, but I also served on the Council of Europe, where he served with great distinction and...

Seanad: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (26 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: If the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach might just indulge me to correct the record, I referred earlier to Kilmainham Gaol by accident with reference to the car park and the contactless payments, whereas I meant the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.

Seanad: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (26 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Special Education Provision: Motion (26 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the motion from Sinn Féin. This is an important debate. The motion makes a valuable contribution to a debate that we should be having on a rolling basis. I welcome the Minister of State. I also welcome his commitment. I also acknowledge, as others did, the work of Senator Rabbitte in the Department previously. All politics is local, according to the great Tip O'Neill,...

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (25 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I will be sharing one minute of my time with Senator Brady. I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber in his new role. I congratulate him on his elevation to that role and commend him on the that fact that he is so proactive and enthusiastic. He will bring the same skill set to his role that he brought to so many other roles in the past. He brings great talent and energy to every...

Seanad: The Diaspora: Statements (5 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes.

Seanad: The Diaspora: Statements (5 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, and thank him for his kind words. I am delighted he has been given this very serious brief. A few of the things I will say in a few moments will indicate how seriously I take this brief and the importance I attach to this Ministry. The Minister of State has immense experience, not only as an emigrant for a short while but also from his work...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The time of year is looming when St. Patrick’s Day approaches and officeholders of this House, the other House and Ministers of the Government visit all over the world, showcase all that is good about Ireland and, importantly, meet the diaspora in those countries. We have a debt to our Irish diaspora in the sense that they are our own kinship and they had to off and leave in difficult...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I am delighted today to host, as a personal guest, Ivan Doherty, whom I acknowledge in the Gallery alongside our former colleague Hugh Byrne. Ivan Doherty was a distinguished general secretary of Fine Gael and made a big contribution to democracy in Ireland. He then became an executive with the National Democratic Institute in America where he continued that work. He is currently a senior...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (19 Feb 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Is cúis áthais dom tacaíocht a thabhairt don mholadh go mbeidh Maria Byrne tofa mar Leas-Chathaoirleach. Is iarrthóir den chéad scoth í. Before I make another few remarks, I acknowledge the presence of Maria's colleague the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, in the Gallery. The Minister of State has stepped out of the Chamber for a moment. I also...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The job of Government at any given time is to respond to the needs of and pressing issues in society. This Bill will assist in dealing with two major contemporary issues. One is the issue of older persons. Older people who are living longer and who have complex needs form an increasingly large cohort of the population. There is clearly a need for a particular type of cluster housing for...