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Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The Taoiseach gave a commitment to phase out the means test for carer's allowance over the lifetime of the Government. It allocated €10 million for a half year in the budget - and €20 million for a full year. The Department of Social Protection tells us that it is going to cost €600 million to phase it out. At the Government's current rate, that would take 30 years....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: At the current rate it is going to take 30 years.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Can the Taoiseach give carers an assurance and the roadmap because at the current rate it will take 30 years?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I just asked for the timeline.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I know that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The total is €600 million and the Government is allocating €20 million a year. That will take 30 years. The maths are very simple.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: She is not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The Deputy asked what the Taoiseach is going to do. If the answer is nothing, then say "Nothing" and sit down.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank everyone who made a contribution to the debate. The Minister of State will agree the depth of feeling is very much evident in the Chamber. The cost-of-living crisis cuts deeper and lasts longer for people with disabilities and the Government knows this. The motion sets out an alternative to the Government's approach. The least we should expect from any decent Government is that it...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges: — the additional costs disabled people face in their day to day lives; — an Indecon report, commissioned by Government back in 2021 confirmed the cost of disability, estimating it to be on average between €9,482 and €11,734 per annum; — this was not the first report showing a cost of disability; and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: It is not normal.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: You are not poor; you are just not using the right methodology.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: There is an energy crisis in homes now, Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The pressure is on families.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the opportunity to make a contribution in respect of the budget. The people who were really celebrating on Tuesday when the announcements were made were the landlords, the developers and the vulture funds. This was a budget for them. The Government might as well have just handed the biro to them and let them write the budget. Not unlike the previous speaker, who is a Fianna...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (9 Oct 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the impact that the housing crisis is having on victims of domestic abuse; to provide an update on the engagement he has had with his Department regarding this issue; if he understands that victims and survivors are losing time, spent on waiting lists, because they cannot return to the place where their...