Results 1-20 of 13,004 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: Yes, the working poor.
- 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.
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Child Poverty: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: I want talk about the measure of consistent poverty used by the Department and the fact that it excludes housing costs. I do not need to tell the witnesses that we are in the middle of a housing crisis. What is the justification for that exclusion because it leaves out a chunk of people, with children at the business end of it, who are at risk of poverty? That risk is being exacerbated by...
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Child Poverty: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: I understand that, but does Mr. Egan not feel like the Department is missing out? Given we are in the middle of a housing crisis, the massive cost of rents now is so materially relevant that it would strike me that the Department is actually missing out. I understand the need for consistency, and, in fact, it could do both. It would be more than possible to do both. The Department has the...
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Child Poverty: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry to cut across Mr. Egan. It is just that if the Department is not including it in its metrics for the child poverty targets, then it is going to miss out. Therefore, there is a significant chunk of children who will not be included in that who are at risk of poverty or living in what I would call consistent poverty when we factor in the housing costs. It just strikes me that...
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Child Poverty: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: That would be welcome. Incorporating it into the targets would actually be effective rather than just highlighting and pointing at it and all the rest of it. I will ask about the groups that are left out. The ESRI Child Poverty on the Island of Ireland report mentions specific groups, such as children from Traveller and Roma communities, as obviously facing a much higher risk of poverty....
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Child Poverty: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: I really feel like the Department is missing a trick there. Bear in mind the first child who was left in emergency accommodation in the State, in a hotel or bed and breakfast accommodation or wherever the Department is putting them, was over 20 years ago. There is a big time lag there. I am very concerned that the numbers who are being excluded are actually growing. It might make the...
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Child Poverty: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: Of course.
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Child Poverty: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: Has the Department ever asked the CSO to include them?