Results 181-200 of 1,301 for speaker:Pauline O'Reilly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Ms O'Shea is not saying we should not change the law to decriminalise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: -----the decriminalisation part.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: The World Health Organization, WHO, is pretty firm on this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Does Ms O'Shea think this committee, which I am not a member of, should investigate the recommendations and guidelines from the WHO?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: As Ms O'Shea said, the scope of what she has been able to do was somewhat limited.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I am from the west of Ireland. We have a challenge, ordinarily, with the recruitment of medical practitioners. Is this limiting rural Ireland even further in getting medical professionals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Molnár for his contribution. He mentioned that timely policy measures led to the global gas markets balancing out. Are we not really looking at the policy measures we now take? LNG is unnecessary if there are sufficient energy efficiency standards and if we continue to invest in renewables but if we do not take those policy measures we may be looking at a different kind of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank Professor McMullin. I want to speak about demand management because often when we have this conversation it is about blackouts versus security of supply or security of electricity generation. We have never had that proper conversation that we have to live within a reality and within natural boundaries. We are constantly talking about protecting business and future investment. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: It is not just about future inward investment. It is also about what we are doing right now and that is the conversation. What I seek from the professor is a recommendation that we do engage in that communication because if there was concerted demand management then we would not be having a conversation on blackouts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: We do talk about data centres. What I am talking about is the stuff that we are doing right now rather than future investment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Are my two minutes up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (23 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: We are now in public session. I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with broadcasting equipment when they are in silent mode. Are the minutes of the meeting on 16 May agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: We are now in session one. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the witnesses from the National Council for the Blind in Ireland: Mr. Aaron Mullaniff, chief services officer; Ms Toni O'Dwyer, manager of children and young persons service; and Ms Edel Doherty , senior practitioner, children and young persons service. The witnesses are here today to discuss the education needs of visually...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: It is fine. It is helpful at the start, as it gives us a great deal of information. Would either of the other witnesses like to make a brief comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses and Senator O'Loughlin. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan is next, followed by Deputy Mairéad Farrell.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I have allowed leniency, because it is important to allow people to continue with their train of thought and it is helpful to members who come in later. This is the first meeting of the committee I have chaired and I apologise for stumbling over a name at the start. I was reading verbatim from my notes. My grandmother volunteered with the NCBI for upwards of 30 years. The organisation is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: That is quite clear. Does anyone else wish to contribute before we move to a second round of questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Regarding Ms Doherty's comments about how children are being asked to go to the front of the room, any of us with children would know how difficult and isolating that is for a child. All children have different personalities. Some like to advocate for themselves while others should not be put in that position. That is why we are here discussing policy and it also shows the importance of...