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Seanad: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (26 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Special Education Provision: Motion (26 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the motion from Sinn Féin. This is an important debate. The motion makes a valuable contribution to a debate that we should be having on a rolling basis. I welcome the Minister of State. I also welcome his commitment. I also acknowledge, as others did, the work of Senator Rabbitte in the Department previously. All politics is local, according to the great Tip O'Neill,...

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (25 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I will be sharing one minute of my time with Senator Brady. I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber in his new role. I congratulate him on his elevation to that role and commend him on the that fact that he is so proactive and enthusiastic. He will bring the same skill set to his role that he brought to so many other roles in the past. He brings great talent and energy to every...

Seanad: The Diaspora: Statements (5 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes.

Seanad: The Diaspora: Statements (5 Mar 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, and thank him for his kind words. I am delighted he has been given this very serious brief. A few of the things I will say in a few moments will indicate how seriously I take this brief and the importance I attach to this Ministry. The Minister of State has immense experience, not only as an emigrant for a short while but also from his work...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The time of year is looming when St. Patrick’s Day approaches and officeholders of this House, the other House and Ministers of the Government visit all over the world, showcase all that is good about Ireland and, importantly, meet the diaspora in those countries. We have a debt to our Irish diaspora in the sense that they are our own kinship and they had to off and leave in difficult...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I am delighted today to host, as a personal guest, Ivan Doherty, whom I acknowledge in the Gallery alongside our former colleague Hugh Byrne. Ivan Doherty was a distinguished general secretary of Fine Gael and made a big contribution to democracy in Ireland. He then became an executive with the National Democratic Institute in America where he continued that work. He is currently a senior...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (19 Feb 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Is cúis áthais dom tacaíocht a thabhairt don mholadh go mbeidh Maria Byrne tofa mar Leas-Chathaoirleach. Is iarrthóir den chéad scoth í. Before I make another few remarks, I acknowledge the presence of Maria's colleague the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, in the Gallery. The Minister of State has stepped out of the Chamber for a moment. I also...

Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (13 Feb 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The job of Government at any given time is to respond to the needs of and pressing issues in society. This Bill will assist in dealing with two major contemporary issues. One is the issue of older persons. Older people who are living longer and who have complex needs form an increasingly large cohort of the population. There is clearly a need for a particular type of cluster housing for...

Seanad: Cathaoirleach a Thoghadh - Election of Cathaoirleach (12 Feb 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Is cúis áthais agus onóra dom a bheith atofa. Déanaim comhghairdeas le mo chomhghleacaithe uilig. Cuireann sé dualgas orainn ár ndícheall a dhéanamh gach lá ar son na ndaoine, na gcomhairleoirí agus mhuintir na gcoláistí. I salute the first speaker of the day, the person who took the Chair and who is the new father of the House....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: At the outset, I express my gratitude to Martin, Bridget and all the staff for the great work they do and for their graciousness and courtesy at all times. I also thank the ushers of the House for how helpful they are to us as we do our work. I had the privilege of working closely with the staff of the House when I was Leas-Chathaoirleach and I can testify to their absolute professionalism...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (7 Nov 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister and acknowledge his very cogent presentation of the legislation and his commitment in this sphere earlier with the vaping legislation, etc. It is excellent. I accept the caveat the Minister highlighted that we cannot be too much of a nanny state but, at the same time, this is a different sphere and we are on different terrain here. It is about addiction, health and...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (7 Nov 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes, I know. I mean in the workplace, in public arenas, at functions, etc. It was a great progressive act and it set a trend for Europe and for the world. It was mould-breaking. I acknowledge that. It would be ludicrous and ridiculously partisan not to do so. However, I also say that this is a further progression of that. The balance of good, any considerations around interference in...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (7 Nov 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Now.

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Nov 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Now.

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Nov 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Now.

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2022 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (7 Nov 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister and wish to acknowledge from the outset that she has a real commitment to this area. She has been a very reforming Minister and will hopefully continue to be so in the future. She is very much avant-garde in trying to modernise legislation, be it domestic violence or family law or whatever, to make a real difference in people's lives and effect real change to...

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2022 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (7 Nov 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: If the Chair could similarly indulge me for a moment, I too want to be associated with those remarks. I am very proud that I, jointly with Senators Cassells and Wall, very consistently and almost day by day over the last term pioneered and pressed for the gambling legislation and regulator. We made great progress in that area. By working with him then, I got to know how passionate the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: We all have our own interpretation of how we have arrived at the happy condition of prosperity but I will not go into that. Now that we are in a prosperous and good budgetary position in this country, the great contemporary challenge is to end the waiting lists for assessments of our children for conditions such as autism, dyspraxia, dyslexia and so on; to improve the services after the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome one of our successful alumni, the Minister of State, back to the House. I want to address a few issues I would like the Minister of State to respond to in his concluding remarks. The infrastructure fund is important. It has been brought into sharp focus by what has happened in Spain. There are particular climatic factors there, but it is predicted that in about 30 or 35 years'...