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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.

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: However, it has been improved on.

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, it would be helpful if this had already been done. I am not being smart, but that should be in the mix, or we should get off the fence - one or the other.

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: It is one factor.

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: Yes, but in this instance there is no avoiding the question. None of us can avoid the issue. One cannot be on both sides of the argument. I missed the presentation, but if I understood the document correctly, I agree with the stated need for job activation. We should not treat jobseeker’s payments as a paternalistic welfare payment to keep the poor at bay and to keep them fed and...

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 welcome our panel of speakers. I apologise for unavoidably missing their initial presentations but I will read their written submission and look forward to hearing their responses later. The speakers are an important part of any debate we have on this issue. Any debate about economics, the future of Europe and so forth needs to be tempered with a focus on building society and on the...

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: Yes, counties, and specifically the county in which I live, the main employer is agri-related food processing, and the entire agriculture industry is centred there. We have to work on the green energy agenda. It has to be central, and we have to sustain that. We have made great progress on developing a culture of recycling in this country, and that has resulted in great progress being made...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (4 Nov 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: 210. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the ESB treats meter readers as self-employed deeming them to be on a contract of service PRSI Class A and due to this, they are denied their statutory rights, that is, redundancy payments and all other social protection entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41771/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: It could be too late for an intervention for them. The social housing initiatives, however, will absorb some construction workers.