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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.

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

Joe O'Reilly: We are a year on with nothing achieved.

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

Joe O'Reilly: We are a year on with no progress made. The final reason the amendment is verging on the farcical is that what we are talking about here is a pilot scheme. We are proposing a pilot scheme.

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

Joe O'Reilly: It is effectively a pilot scheme.

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

Joe O'Reilly: It is a pilot scheme and-----

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

Joe O'Reilly: -----it will be monitored.

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

Joe O'Reilly: Objective evidence will emerge. I say to the proposers of the amendment that it is time to see reason and withdraw it.

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

Joe O'Reilly: We will make it twist.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Common Travel Area: Department of Justice and Equality (23 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: It is a great privilege to attend the first meeting of our select committee on Brexit. It is a very important committee because Brexit is an issue for many people. In the part of Ireland that I come from there are 30,000 journeys across the Border on a daily basis for work, social and education reasons so it is of huge significance there. It is a great privilege to be at this committee and...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Common Travel Area: Department of Justice and Equality (23 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: Will this work? Can this be successfully done?

Seanad: Reports on Motor Insurance Costs: Statements (22 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State and I congratulate him. I commend the fact that he has really grasped this issue. He is making it a big priority in his Ministry and I wish him well with that. Despite competing commitments at home, I stayed on to contribute to this debate because I wanted to say this to the Minister of State and also because this issue is of huge importance to the people in...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: An Ghaeilge agus Breatimeacht: Díospóireacht (21 Mar 2017)

Joe O'Reilly: I dtús báire, ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh ár gcuairteoirí. Tá an comhrá an-spéisiúil. Ní smaoiníonn muid go rialta ar an tslí ina gcuirfidh Breatimeacht isteach ar ghnáthdhaoine thart ar an Teorainn ina ngnáthshaolta. Tá sé an-tábhachtach smaointiú air sin agus rud a dhéanamh faoi....