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Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I shall not accept interruptions because my comments are important.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: The closure of pubs on Good Friday is part of our religious tradition. It is non-sectarian in that there has been a buy-in by all of the religious traditions. It also sends a subliminal message on our attitude to alcohol that we favour temperance and have space for a non-alcohol day or two during the year. We should not give in to every fad and whim of commercialism. If there is money to...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: We should open the debate and reflect more before getting rid of everything and giving in to every commercial whim. We should not fumble in the greasy till and add the ha'pence to the pence on every issue.

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: At the outset, I join with others in welcoming the former Senator, Ms Imelda Henry-----

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome Ms Imelda Henry to the Gallery today. She is a great advocate for publicans and vintners. As she is a fearless and good advocate for them and well fit to articulate their position, she is not afraid to deal with a diversity of views. I know that she will take all views on board. I rise to oppose the legislation on a number of grounds. The first is that the tradition of closing...

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: It is nonsense to think that they will come in on a special rate that day. That will not materialise. Many workers will be exploited in the process.

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: We should not always be affected by commercial considerations and I want to suggest a variation on that in a minute. We should not always measure what we do in society and how we conduct our business on purely commercial considerations. There are things that are valuable in our culture and part of our heritage, identity, tradition and what we are that we should preserve. I suggest humbly...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with former Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern (6 Apr 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: At the outset I join in the welcome to former Taoiseach Ahern, and thank him for taking the trouble to come and engage with this very important public discourse. The first basic concern in this country is around the free movement of people. It is particularly acute in the area that I come from in that there is a huge anxiety to preserve the common travel area, to have a seamless Border...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Dundalk Chamber of Commerce (6 Apr 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome Mr. Gaynor. I had the pleasure of meeting him for a few minutes in the foyer on the way in and I had met Mr. Moloney previously in the context of a local discussion. I join the Chairman in congratulating Mr. Gaynor on his incisive and deep presentation, which helps us to understand and make the case. I also welcome Councillor John McGahon to the House. I know he is passionate...

Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, to the House. I express my appreciation and the House's appreciation to him for the work he is doing to protect the Good Friday Agreement and the principles it is built on, to ensure that it is implemented as fully as it can be and to protect the Irish Government's position on it. He represents the Taoiseach in that work, with whom he is in regular...

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: On Tuesday afternoon at 2.30.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I want to speak to the amendment. With the greatest respects to my colleagues who put forward the amendment, there is an inherent illogicality in the amendment. There is an inherent wrongness or lack of soundness in the amendment. If the Senators argue that it is subjectively wrong on biodiversity grounds, on ecological grounds, etc., to permit the cutting of hedges in the month of August,...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I meant it in the professional sense. She is a very eminent lawyer, and surely an eminent lawyer such as the Senator can see the illogicality of the position.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: It is a totally-----

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: The position does not stand up to logic. I want the Fianna Fáil Senators to think logically and reasonably. Assuming the amendment passes tonight, I have anecdotal evidence to suggest there will be amendments in the Dáil to restore the status quo. I have heard anecdotally that will happen. It could well be proposed from the Fianna Fáil benches. Do Senators realise that...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: There are three very important points. The amendment makes no sense. It is neither one nor the other.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: The one we are discussing.

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I am referring to amendment No. 3b. It makes no sense. The second problem is that is a delaying thing, to the extent that common sense will prevail in the Dáil. Its illogicality will become clear, it will be reversed and it will come back here.