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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Organisations (22 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I listened very carefully to a recent report on the "This Week" programme from reporter Peter O'Connell. He referenced rural decline and depopulation and linked it specifically to a number of GAA clubs in the west of Ireland. One was St. Senan's in Kilkee. I note the chairperson, Diarmuid Keane, referenced that rural towns need significant Government aid if they are to continue to be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Organisations (22 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: It is the job of the Minister to treat us to the greatest hits of his Government and all of the rest, but in truth the statistics and facts speak for themselves. The situation was laid out very clearly for us in the RTÉ report. St. Senan's in Kilkee last reached a county final in 2009, when it had 52 adult players on its senior and junior teams. In 2025, the club now has access to at...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Organisations (22 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sure they will because this is an issue about which they have become incredibly exercised, and for good reason. I am using St. Senan's as an example because it was the club that was highlighted in the RTÉ report, but in the immediate surrounding areas 66% of the houses are holiday homes. When a house comes onto the market, young people who might want to stay in the area and are...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I send my solidarity to the people of Palestine. I condemn the Israeli genocide and the ongoing starvation of the people of Gaza. A blockade is preventing humanitarian aid from being brought in and it is certain that thousands more men, women and children will die. These deaths are entirely preventable. We cannot turn our eyes away. Every day, we are reminded by people living in Gaza...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: That is not enough.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it 40,000?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: He is blaming the Opposition again, the local authorities, anyone but himself.

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to welcome Cara Darmody and her dad, Mark, to the Gallery. It is unfortunate they are here. I would draw their attention to the fact that the Government has circulated its response to this debate already so no matter what is said here on the floor of the Dáil, its script is already written. It has already decided what it is going to say. It has made it very clear it has no...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: There has to be a change.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The Taoiseach has failed those children.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Business of Joint Committee (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Apologies have been received from Deputy David Maxwell. Before we proceed, I have a few housekeeping matters to go through. The first is that I make the following declaration. I do solemnly declare that I will duly and faithfully engage and, to the best of my knowledge and ability, execute the office of Cathaoirleach of the Joint Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen without...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 346. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated first year and full year cost of increasing the home carer tax credit to €2,000. [25922/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that entitlement to survivor's pensions was expanded to included divorced people as part of a suite of measures in the mid-1990s to ensure that "no spouse would lose out in terms of his or her social welfare entitlements on becoming divorced" (details supplied); if he still supports that policy position; the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that people who suffer the loss of a second spouse or civil partner may access their original survivor's pension or rate of pension pursuant to section 124(4) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; if he is aware that the original policy rationale behind this provision was to ensure that the "pension...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that divorced and separated people whose former partner dies after the enactment of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025 (as currently drafted) will no longer have an entitlement to a survivor's pension; if his Department has undertaken any risk assessment or poverty-proofing process...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 607. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has undertaken any human rights and equality impact assessment concerning the proposals to reduce the social welfare entitlements of divorced and separated people whose former partner has died in the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025; if he is aware that undertaking such an assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 610. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline any estimates or projections available to his Department concerning the annual cost to his Department, the Exchequer and the Social Insurance Fund of expanding the scope of widows, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension schemes to include qualified cohabitants (as per the Social Welfare...