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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Last, I get the impression personally, but maybe I have not read the newspapers in sufficient detail, that the public opposition to Traveller housing has reduced. Am I correct?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I just thought specifically.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Is that right across the country?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: In my region we are very fortunate that way and have been.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Even within that, the councils do whatever can be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our guests and my former colleague from college. It is good to see you again. It is worth saying at the outset that we are individually and collectively horrified by the genocide in the form of the bombing and the starvation and indeed the recent spate of illegal settlements in the West Bank. The focus on the West Bank has naturally been lost a bit, but that is a horror too. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I will keep going and I might make it yet. I will ask all the questions. Do these “jus cogens norms” mean there is a general binding nature there but that they are not absolutely binding? That leads to my second question, in relation to EU law under the Treaty of Rome. Is it not a term of the Treaty of Rome that EU law in the form of regulations and directives, etc., is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I can look at the blacks later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Could we facetiously say that if we were to apply moral criteria to the bonds and impose rules on them other than those associated with the prospectus outlined last week, we might have very few bonds? Where do we begin and end with this kind of thing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: It is simplistic to say this but bonds connected to cigarette or alcohol companies and bonds of several rogue states, for example, are killing people daily. How does this work in practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Dr. Nuseibah has answered. Ms Mahony will take up the other points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: With respect, it is normal practice to seek the Attorney General's advice. Once the Government appoints an Attorney General, it must seek the Attorney General's advice on legislation and has to go by it. What does Mr. Marmion say to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Will I have time? Does the Cathaoirleach know if it has started?

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank my party colleague Deputy Brian Brennan for facilitating me. A delegation from home is meeting a Minister. I will be as brief as I can. There is huge admiration throughout the country for the organisations, as evidenced by the three in four people who support overseas development aid. There is huge admiration for the work the witnesses organisations do and huge buy-in to it. It is...

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I personally think it should be done.

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: There was the issue of the cost-benefit analysis of USAID and debt. Is that door not fully closed?

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Has a study been done on debt?

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Work of Dóchas: Discussion (17 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes. I will have to leave fairly soon after Ms McKenna answers.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I want to raise a matter that is very important to the community from whence I come and the surrounding area. I am anxious that the Leader speak directly to the Minister, Deputy Peter Burke, on foot of this intervention. The Leader is aware that Wellman International, which based in Mullagh in County Cavan, has gone into examinership. The company employs approximately 240 people, many...

Seanad: Situation in Gaza: Statements (29 May 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State and acknowledge the fact the Chair of the foreign affairs committee, Deputy Lahart, has been at most of this debate. As I serve on that committee, it is good that he is taking the matter so seriously. I acknowledge the Tánaiste as a politician who, from day one, has been strong on this issue and is not a newcomer to it. This is a story of depravity....