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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Review of Foreign Policy and External Relations: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: The Acting Chairman is a noble man.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Review of Foreign Policy and External Relations: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the guests. It is good to have their input and the opportunity to talk to them. It is right that we embark on a review of our foreign affairs arrangements, our diplomacy, the aims of our foreign policy and where we deploy resources. Such a review is welcome and necessary. Circumstances have changed as a consequence of the extraordinarily deep recession, movement in Northern...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Review of Foreign Policy and External Relations: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: Regional balance should be a mantra and we should work towards it. Obviously, the first objective is to achieve inward investment. A significant diplomatic objective should be to achieve retrospective compensation of this country, as promised, on foot of the approximately €24 billion that was put into the banks to rescue them. We have done badly in the sense that we were the first...
- Roads Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill and congratulate the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, on bringing the legislation before the House. It is another effort to use public moneys more efficiently and thus become more cost effective. The move to merge and rebrand the NRA and the RPA as the transport infrastructure service, or agency, will greatly...
- An Coimisinéir Teanga a Cheapadh: Motion (18 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: Ba mhaith liom mo chuid ama a roinnt leis an Teachta Kyne.
- An Coimisinéir Teanga a Cheapadh: Motion (18 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: Tá an tUasal Rónán Ó Domhnaill ainmnithe ag an Rialtas le ceapadh don phost mar Choimisinéir Teanga in áit an tUasal Seán Ó Cuirreáin, atá ag éirí as oifig. Is duine den chéad scoth é Rónán Ó Domhnaill. Tá an-mheas air mar iriseoir agus mar chraoltóir. Is céimí de chuid Ollscoil na...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Experience of the Irish Delegation to the Committee of the Regions (13 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Chair. I too was speaking in the Dáil and as a result missed the presentations. I have read the original submission and have a sense of the content. I welcome warmly the delegation, individually and collectively. I spent more than 20 very happy years as an elected member in local government and know a number of the delegates individually. I would not only know some...
- Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the move to professionalise further the sale and hire of sunbeds. I commend the Government, specifically the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, and the Minister of State, Deputy White, on their efforts to ensure the members of the public who avail of these services not only use them in a safe environment under professional supervision but understand the dangers associated with...
- Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: I understand Deputy Breen wishes to share time with Deputies McLoughlin and Kyne.
- Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: We need positive investment to compensate for the pull to the east and to population centres of inward investment. That is crucial. Section 10 of the Bill will ensure that any loans or grants approved by existing county enterprise boards will be honoured by the new Enterprise Ireland umbrella. There need be no uncertainty or fear among existing clients of the enterprise boards. An...
- County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: All of our economic policies, all of our fiscal policies and all budgetary strategies are really predicated on the idea of creating jobs. Every job is vital, for the human being concerned and in terms of the social welfare budget. I commend the legislation. It is an exciting new adventure. It will bring the best of what exists together with a democratically controlled expertise of the...
- County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: Counties, such as Cavan and Monaghan, which do badly out of jobs announcements should do well out of this.
- County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this reforming Bill, which allows the Government to honour commitments under the programme for Government and the Action Plan for Jobs by merging the employment support functions of local agencies and enterprise boards into a single entity or one-stop-shop. Counties Cavan and Monaghan do not benefit from foreign direct investment to the same extent as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: North-South Co-operation on Health and EU Directive on Patients' Rights: Department of Health (6 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: I will begin where Deputy Smith left off when he mentioned the Cavan, Monaghan and Sligo area. Before I get into the issue, I welcome our visiting delegations and thank them for the presentation. It is important that we develop services on this side of the Border in our hospitals and there should be a strategy for the Cavan-Monaghan hospital group, as well as Sligo. In my constituency...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Review of Foreign Policy and External Relations: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Chairman and welcome our three guests. I apologise for my late arrival, having got delayed on the way, as I would like to have heard the presentations. In am very interested in the question posed by the Chairman. It is relevant and probably the most pertinent, and one that is on all our minds, that is, the question of the recapitalisation of the banks and how we are likely to...
- ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Jan 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the legislation and acknowledge that it as another part of the Minister's effort to modernise the communications and energy sectors, with a resulting positive impact on job creation. That is the logic underpinning all of the strategies employed by the Minister and his Department. That has to be the ultimate result of any initiative the House approves. It should be about job...
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: I call the Minister to reply.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: Allow the Minister to continue without interruption.
- Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)
Joe O'Reilly: The Minister to continue without interruption.