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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.

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

Joe O'Reilly: We need both.

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

Joe O'Reilly: I join the Chairman in welcoming the delegation, many of whom have been personal friends and colleagues for a number of years. I thank them for their presentations. I subscribe to their objectives, which I will develop later, but I begin by asking about the reference to a territorial approach to the management and in terms of the Europe 2020 objectives. Councillor Richmond stated that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Report: Northern Ireland Community Relations Council (9 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the witnesses and I thank Mr. Osborne for his presentation. Two issues are predominant in the presentation and are obviously critical to getting a post-conflict society, to use the terminology. First is the question of integrated schools. The Northern Ireland Community Relations Council document states: The Good Friday Agreement had provided the integrated-schools movement with...

Protection of Children's Health (Tobacco Smoke in Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I join in congratulating and commending Senators van Turnhout, Crown and Daly on their efforts. I also commend the Minister on laying this legislation before the House. He is particularly passionate about this issue, his passion arising from his experience as a general practitioner, GP. It is great that he is using this opportunity as a politician to address what he knows from general...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (7 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I believe India and China are a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (7 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome all our visitors and thank them for the presentations. I share Deputy Byrne's pride as a Government Deputy, and we are from each of the coalition parties. We have seen much achievement in the area of job creation, with unemployment now down to 11.1% or 11.2%. We are making massive strides in that area, with 31,000 new people at work in the past year. We are extremely happy about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (7 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes; I am coming to that. The people wishing for sensationalist, populist and other reasons to misrepresent our policies - the idea that we have adopted austerity as a happy ideological position - must know we are far from that. We adopted our policies with a view to putting our people to work and we are delighted that it is happening. I accept the Chairman's interjection, and he is right...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Rule of Law in the European Union: Discussion (7 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: It is disturbing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Rule of Law in the European Union: Discussion (7 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: It will literally take 30 seconds. I realise it is not included in his brief and that Mr. Ligeti has stated he works for an anti-corruption body, but will he enlighten us on how the homelessness law works in practice? Was the deal with Mr. Putin and Russia not born out of necessity rather than desire? Was there a choice in that case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Rule of Law in the European Union: Discussion (7 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I did not mean it in an insulting way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Rule of Law in the European Union: Discussion (7 Oct 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I might play devil's advocate and question some of the propositions here for the sake of balance, and also to give the witnesses an opportunity to clarify things. I apologise for not hearing Mr. Ligeti's presentation; I am just reading the documentation, which I presume is more limited than the presentation was. I believe it is an unreasonable proposition that countries in Eastern Europe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Forthcoming General Affairs Council: Minister of State (25 Sep 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Murphy, and congratulate him on his appointment. I wish him well. I agree with the Chairman's remarks on the extremely impressive quality of his report to us, which is appreciated. I agree with the Minister of State's remarks that an item at the top of the agenda will be to strengthen relationships with his counterparts in other countries. It is...