Results 21-40 of 5,112 for speaker:Joe O'Reilly

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'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Fifty Years of Irish Aid and Perspectives on the Crisis in Sudan: Department of Foreign Affairs (22 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: No, I just welcome our witnesses. Like Deputy Cronin, I wish them well in their distribution of the money. It is a serious responsibility.

Seanad: Curragh of Kildare (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the discussion initiated by my two colleagues and I welcome the Minister of State. I share the view that the Curragh is an extraordinarily important national resource and centre. The horse racing industry is very important with horse breeding being a hugely important sector that is closely associated with the Curragh. We have a huge international reputation in this area and it is...

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome and support the Bill. I hope it will be supported unanimously. "Catfishing" is a new term. It is a real issue for a great many people. From anecdotal and newspaper reports, we are all aware of vulnerable people and people who may not be so vulnerable whose money has been taken from them through this process. They believe they have developed a relationship with somebody akin to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses. This is an important review. I fully appreciate there is a level of overlap now, but it is important we all contribute. Before I do that, I want to say that our Defence Forces personnel serving with UNIFIL in Lebanon are in all our hearts and minds today. We can be so proud of them. It is a very distressing time for Army families all over Ireland. I have spoken to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: That is wonderful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Is there length and depth to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: To me, as a former teacher, one day does not sound like enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: The training would need to be regular, topped up and consistent over time, in addition to being monitored and evaluated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: It is a key element.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: A once-off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: It would be interesting to get an update on whether there is an improvement in their experience. Do they have enough training days? Do they get to do stuff? Do they get a sense of camaraderie and meeting up? My sense is that it is not consistent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Excellent. That is good news. It is exactly what we want to hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: The Cathaoirleach has obviously got some insights. You have the date, have you?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Minding the lamps and all.

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I will begin where the Acting Chair left off. I concur with her remarks about my colleague Senator Carrigy who has taken this as his personal crusade in his first term in the Seanad. It is truly impressive that he has achieved so much in this area in one term. I know he is particularly committed to it. His achievements are mammoth and I congratulate him on that. I am certainly proud to...