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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...

Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the legislation. The objective of the Bill is to provide for the dissolution of the Irish Sports Council and the National Sports Campus Development Authority with their merger into the new Sport Ireland body. It designates Sport Ireland as the national anti-doping agency. The legislation allows for retaining the current master plan for the National Sports Campus. Those are...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: When I and other Members of the House go around our respective constituencies and hold advice clinics, one of the perennial complaints we receive from people in business, farmers and various interest groups is that they are overregulated and that the EU has imposed too much regulation. I have never met, and I am never likely to meet, someone who would not accept the need for the most...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Expenditure (17 Sep 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: 585. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the overall amount of expenditure this year on free legal aid; the procedures that are in place for controlling costs; the case of persons who avail of this service more than once; the amount of money that is spent on second and subsequent cases; the steps, if any, that are made to recoup moneys spent on free legal aid clients; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Contract Issues (17 Sep 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: 906. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of a private consultant who works in a public hospital, the percentage of their patients that can be private; the percentage of the income that they earn from private patient consultations that is given back to the hospital in which they work; the overall percentage of moneys owing by private consultants that has been collected by the general...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (17 Sep 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: 908. To ask the Minister for Health the details and the total cost of the action plan seeking funding for inpatient and day surgery which was forwarded from Cavan General Hospital to his private office; the number of patients; the exact speciality that would benefit from this funding; and if funding is approved, how quickly can this plan be implemented; the access targets for in-patients-day...

Disability Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: It needs to be revisited.

Disability Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I join others in congratulating my colleague and friend, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, on his appointment to the position of Minister of State and wish him well in the role. I know he will bring his great depth of professional experience working with young people and his political experience to the role and he will do an outstanding and committed job. I also welcome this...

Topical Issue Debate: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (10 Jul 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Deputies Seán Crowe, Dara Calleary, Finian McGrath, Thomas Pringle and Brendan Smith have ten minutes in total to make an initial statement but in any event each Deputy has two minutes and will speak in the order in which I have named them.