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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 Dec 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Deputy,-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 Dec 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: The Deputy will get to ask another supplementary question later.

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: The opening point we all need to accept and address is that water will have to be paid for by some process. The question is how. In other words, the water that comes to us naturally from the sky, and is a free resource in that sense, must be treated, there must be an infrastructure to deliver it and there must be expense around creating pure, drinkable water. It is disingenuous and...

Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: What progress has been made on the adoption (tracing and information) Bill by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs? Many people want to know their medical records, trace their family histories, etc. It is a reasonable right. The Tánaiste will understand that this is urgent and important legislation for those involved. I also understand that, in some instances, people will not...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Today our Government is responding to the people's concerns and continuing to show leadership. Both are equally important. First of all, we are responding by establishing affordability. This will come in the form of a net €60 for a single person dwelling or family and a net €160 for a dwelling of more than one person, in other words, €1.15 per week and €3 per...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Accountability Report 2013: European Movement Ireland (18 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our guests and thank them for the report, which is extraordinarily positive. Chapter 3 is particularly relevant in an Irish context. It should be highlighted and emphasised that the average Irish ministerial attendance at 2013 meetings of the Council of the European Union was 99%. Ireland is joint first with Greece and Lithuania in this regard. Also, 39 out of ten Council...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Enlargement Strategy: Centre for European Policy Studies (13 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I join in the welcome to Mr. Erwan Fouéré. It has always been the Irish Government's policy to support enlargement and that is what we wish for in terms of spreading the peace, increasing markets and a range of other reasons in favour of enlargement. Having said that, the report is disturbing to the extent that it cites a lack of progress in readiness in the Balkan states. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council Meeting: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (13 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Ahmadiyya.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council Meeting: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (13 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I also thank the Minister of State for a comprehensive and thorough report. I am especially heartened by the paragraph where he notes President Juncker's plans for an ambitious jobs growth and investment package for Europe, in which he identifies €300 billion to be spent. I hope this country will benefit from that and that it will help us bring our unemployment levels down to single...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Business of Committee (13 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: On behalf of my colleagues, Chairman, I wish to record our appreciation of, and admiration for, the job you did this morning in presenting our two reports. You presented a very positive image of the committee to the country and, hopefully, to other countries through the web. It was a very successful morning and you deserve great credit for it.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: He is not.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I am happy to speak in the presence of the newly appointed Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Humphreys. We have had a friendship for many years based on my association with an educational institution on the south side of this city, Ringsend Technical Institute.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I am delighted to congratulate him on his appointment and to welcome him here in his official capacity. I would like to address two aspects of the Social Welfare Bill 2014. First, I draw attention to the degree to which the Bill recognises the sacrifices and huge efforts made by ordinary people in keeping faith with this Government's correct economic strategy, which has clearly worked...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (11 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress, to date in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cavan; if it is on course to open in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42990/14]

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I call Deputy Twomey. I understand he is sharing time with Deputies Costello, Mulherin, Maloney and Doherty. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: For any parent who spends a Sunday night on Skype to their child in Australia or watches their unemployed youngster fiddling with a television remote control watching inane television programmes, and despite the other debates occurring in which a fair bit of self-interest is involved, the only issue in this Finance Bill - the only show in town - is job creation. The great moral...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I make my point respectfully. There is no equivocal position here; one cannot have two positions. The fact that the property tax is modulated and graduated achieves what the delegation has cited. Why would the delegates not come out and support it unequivocally and unambiguously? Such leadership needs to come from all sectors if we are to get to a new place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: With respect, we are here to be frank with one another. It is no good if there is not a co-ordinated position whereby one says what might not be popular with everyone but what is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: With respect, the debate will be over at the time. This should have happened months ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: That is a fair point.