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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Great, thanks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: That is interesting. There should not really be any more, in some respects, going to any one of the other countries. I think it is very welcome news that the portal will also include Northern Ireland or that is certainly-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: -----being recommended. It is possibly not a question for the witnesses. I think it is really welcome that the Department will follow up on the career guidance. I think it is also important that teachers feel supported in it and that it is not just a further burden, as I have said. That is what is happening to teachers. It is one thing on top of another. I think that they would welcome...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Again, that comes back to the idea of what is in it for students. Price point, choice and all of those elements have to be part of the conversation. I thank the witnesses.

Seanad: Moving Towards Zero Tolerance of Violence against Women: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister. I came back from Brussels this morning. I was there yesterday to help launch an atlas on contraception for Europe. Ireland has jumped significantly, by 15%, to make it into the top four. This has happened quickly because of small measures but, in some ways, it has taken quite a while to get here because the likes of the Irish Family Planning Association has been...

Seanad: Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Second Stage (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: The Minister of State is very welcome to the Chamber. This is a very technical Bill. All of us listening to the Minister of State's very detailed speech would be forgiven for not fully getting to grips with the details of it. I appreciate that he is coming back with an amendment on Committee Stage. All of this is underpinned by the fact that over the past two years the price of...

Seanad: Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Second Stage (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: At 2.30 p.m. next Tuesday.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber today. As the Cathaoirleach has said, a number of Members have raised this issue, and Senator Buttimer has indeed been at the forefront on the issues around cystic fibrosis. I am here for an update from the Minister of State. He will be aware that Cystic Fibrosis Ireland had called for a health technology...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I will not get into a long discussion on the stranglehold that pharma companies have when it comes to providing treatment. As the Minister of State indicated, a huge amount of money was given to Vertex. I am disappointed that we have no update on the HTA. I ask the Minister of State to go back to the Minister and ask him to, as soon as possible, give me a date by which he thinks it will be...

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: The Minister is very welcome and I am delighted to be here today as someone who has worked as a family law solicitor myself. I feel very passionately about this piece of legislation and, indeed, I had the very great honour of being in the negotiations, along with the Minister, Deputy O’Gorman, for the Green Party, with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. It was a priority for us to put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank our guests for attending. They talked about projections. In the past, the data on projections for areas were quite old. How up to date are they for demographic shift in an area? Obviously, we are inclined to talk about areas we know. In some parts of Galway, such as the suburbs around the west, no new schools have been planned for some time. In their response, our guests might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Are we now using those new census data or are we still using the older census data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: On the question of patronage, the witnesses will know that there is a target but it is hard to see how that target can be met through shifting schools that are already in the system. We are therefore pretty much reliant on new schools to develop diverse patronage. To what extent is that taken into account? Is it considered whether there is a lack of diversity of patronage among schools in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I do not want to interrupt but I am really conscious of my time. What are the projections in respect of these kinds of projects? Problems with making these projects happen have been identified that have regard to funding or the Catholic Church. What are the projections, taking into consideration new schools and some of these pilot projects? Is the Department hitting its targets when both...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I do not want to interrupt. I am not saying there is not work done. I am talking about whether we are hitting the targets. Somebody has to buy into these projects. The Catholic Church has to agree to it. The Catholic Church has to be paid. Another question is whether we have the data. One of the issues is that schools of a particular patronage are not asking parents who send children...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I am not suggesting anyone is being sent to a school he or she does not want to be sent to. I am saying the data is simply not there. I am asking how that can be changed so the data is received. I do not think we can keep going back and saying we just have a general feeling or we know how people feel on the ground. We really do not. We do not have the data. It is on the work plan to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: The Cathaoirleach is very welcome to the Chair. It is lovely to see him sitting there. I congratulate Senator Chambers who I am sure will do a fantastic job as she did as Deputy Leader. I very much enjoyed working with her and I know that I will continue to work well with her. I also wanted to welcome BQMS O'Brien and Ms Kettle. I thank them for coming in. It is very important that we...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the Cathaoirleach. It is wonderful to be able to say that to Senator Buttimer. We have had a very interesting couple of years in the Seanad. This is my first time in the Seanad and sometimes when I was getting the train up from Galway, I was the only person in the carriage. We had a really unique experience over the last couple of years and we are almost like a family in here. We...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: Senator Buttimer is one of us, regardless of who "us" is, which is possibly the best thing that can be said about somebody. Now that he has taken the Chair, I know he will perform the role in an unbiased way. I would not trust everybody to do the job fairly but I trust Senator Buttimer to do so and I really look forward to working with him. I also want to pay tribute to the former...