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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Mr. Godfrey has explained the difference clearly. I am finished.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome Mr. O'Loughlin and acknowledge his very successful career in the ESB. He referred to propane gas and stated he found serious shortfalls in the areas of fluid-filled cables, sulphur reporting and flexible earths. He then went through a list. He acknowledges that the position has changed in each case. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Somebody watching these proceedings could reasonably ask where is Mr. O’Loughlin’s evidence that the same results could not have been achieved within normal structures in the ESB and without a public outcry about this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Did Mr. O'Loughlin investigate all opportunities before he went down this route? Is he convinced beyond reasonable doubt that he tried every opportunity to work within the structures to achieve the same objectives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: Is he absolutely sure of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: It has occurred to me that there was a degree of reform and ongoing improvement in the company's health and safety and structure, which was necessary. Mr. O'Loughlin was right in his fundamental analysis but this was happening and the company was improving. Were Mr. O'Loughlin's actions necessary to achieving that? Was that process likely to happen anyway? How sure is Mr. O'Loughlin that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I am happy with that.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Travellers Towards a More Equitable Ireland Post-Recognition: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: It would be important to show no displays of mediocrity after that.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Travellers Towards a More Equitable Ireland Post-Recognition: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Chairman for that endorsement. I welcome our visitors, the Traveller people, who are with us today. It is historic, as my colleague, Senator Ó Ríordáin, stated earlier. It is wonderful that they are here. It is also wonderful that it is a public session. I warmly welcome them and endorse it, and I hope it is part of an ongoing dialogue. I commend my...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Travellers Towards a More Equitable Ireland Post-Recognition: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I anticipated the Chairman's interruption.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Travellers Towards a More Equitable Ireland Post-Recognition: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: They are the victims of prejudice and ignorance on the part of our community. We should begin by admitting that and that there is much wrong at our end. It is an important starting point. There is no point in avoiding that or dressing it up in any other form. The onus is on us as community leaders to try to lessen that. I served on the Traveller accommodation committee on my local...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Travellers Towards a More Equitable Ireland Post-Recognition: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I understand the Traveller community has a problem with bullying in secondary schools but I would like to ask the witnesses about the transition to secondary. How is that transition evolving? At the stage where I was leaving teaching, there was a movement into secondary education of a greater degree. There is bullying there and there are also some barriers. I would like to ask them about...

Seanad: Climate Action Plan: Statements (4 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Acting Chairman-----

Seanad: Climate Action Plan: Statements (4 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I do not mind, I am happy to wait.

Seanad: Climate Action Plan: Statements (4 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: It was my pleasure. We could not deny the House the Senator's eloquence.

Seanad: Climate Action Plan: Statements (4 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome my colleague, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton. If the Action Plan for Jobs, which he initiated, launched, supervised and managed, is a yardstick or indicator as to what will happen in this instance, we can be extraordinarily optimistic. It is good that we have clear objectives of meeting our 2030 target and reaching zero emissions by...

Seanad: EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (3 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome my constituency colleague, the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Heather Humphreys. I know from working with her in the constituency of her concern for the welfare of farmers. I acknowledge, as did my colleague, the potential benefits of the deal. However, I wish to focus on the potential pitfalls. At present, beef farmers are experiencing dreadful...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Order for Second Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Second Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: At the outset I welcome the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty to the House. I salute her as a reforming Minister across a range of areas, whether it is the recognition of home workers, those unfortunate staff who were abused when their tips were taken and used as part of their wages or now the recognition of the rights of self-employed. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our witnesses and thank them for their painstaking efforts to explain it. It is very complex. I wish to comment on Deputy Eamon Ryan's intervention without opening an extraneous debate, I wish to remind him that his constituents benefit from the Luas, a public bus service, and an entire infrastructure subsidised by the great taxpayers of Ireland and it is my contention that the...