Results 301-320 of 13,004 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: There was an election in between.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: They do not pay in euros.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: In fairness to the Taoiseach, he has nothing to say.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The joint committee met in private session at 11.10 a.m., suspended at 11.29 a.m. and resumed in public session at 11.34 a.m.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I have to attend to some procedural matters. Everyone is welcome to this meeting. Some formal notices have to be read into the record. I remind members of the constitutional requirement that members must be physically present within the confines of the place in which Parliament has chosen to sit, namely, Leinster House, in order to participate in public meetings. I will not allow members...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Moran. I acknowledge this is his second time before the committee so I thank him for his time and for sharing his insight. I will open the floor to members of the committee who may have a question or comment. I call Deputy Buckley.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes. That, plus the information Mr. Moran has given us today, will very much help our deliberations and our guidance. I am struck by the fact that there was a lot of fallout from a good thing. Civil partnership and marriage equality are good, forward-thinking things. My party colleague Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh is bringing forward legislation to disregard criminal convictions that...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I have some questions. Mr. Moran paints a very good picture because we are not dealing with today but with an historic matter. For those born after decriminalisation, this might be very hard to understand. Much and all as I dearly wish I was in that category, as others here are, I am not, so I do have some understanding of the issue. It is hard to believe that decriminalisation only...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: It is the implementation of the letter of the law. It is open to Mr. Moran to correspond with us in relation to the amendment that he is proposing and to send it to me as Chair or to the clerk, as appropriate, as a formal proposal, and I hope he does so. We would very much welcome that. It will help us in our discussions. This is the second time he has been before the committee and I do...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Understood. That is very helpful in painting a picture of what it would have been like for Ms O’Donoghue having that conversation, to be able to say to her colleague in the Department of Finance, “I am telling you this person will never benefit from the scheme. We do not need to go into the details."

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: That is useful for the benefit of people who may not remember what it was like at the time. It is quite recent, in a scary way, although very distant from our perspective now. We need to look at it through that lens. It might have been blindingly obvious that equality legislation was coming at us at some point closer to it, but in the seventies and eighties, that would not be the case at...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: We need to be fair to Deputy Bacik as well. Although the legislation was cut and pasted from what she said, she did not write the legislation necessarily. We can do both. Even if we establish where it came from, the simple fact is that it was intended to encompass everybody but it did not. We will keep coming back around to that.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: There is no one else indicating. I thank Mr. Moran and Ms O’Donoghue sincerely for coming in this morning, for the forthright way they have engaged with the committee and for the fact they came in with their homework done and were able to answer our questions, which is always very helpful and useful. They have given us much to consider. The information they provided has been very...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I think we can all agree that a comprehensive and good piece of work was done this morning by the committee. We have a good bit to work on following that. I thank all those involved for their participation. I propose that the petitions considered by the committee at this and previous meetings be published and that the replies from the Departments and other bodies may also be published....

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I wholeheartedly agree the Deputy. I thank him for his words in acknowledging the importance of local knowledge. Sometimes that is key. To be fair, there is a new Minister in place. In the previous Dáil, the secretariat corresponded with Cork County Council and the OPW. The previous committee requested that appropriate solutions be put in place. We will definitely include this...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: My apologies.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: There is a leaflet. A small bit of updating is being done on that. I will link in with the clerk when we are back and ask her to circulate. Only a small bit of updating needed to be done. It is on the website but I will double-check that. Members can also requested the publication of a leaflet with their information on it to distribute to people in their constituencies. I have some of...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise again for getting the Deputy's name wrong. All of our business has been concluded for this afternoon. The committee is now adjourned until after the summer recess, when we will meet in private and public session.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: It concerns something that could not have been possibly envisaged at the time. That explains some but not all of it.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the considerable expense that homeowners have to incur to be admitted to the pyrite remediation scheme; if he will provide details of any supports available for homeowners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37120/25]