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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: There is also the cost of heating them.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: While I share strong views on the banks, I do not believe there is a need for unparliamentary language, as the previous speaker has used just to get himself a headline. Today I raise the important issue of Dublin Airport. There are 12,500 people employed there directly and it is estimated another nine jobs are created indirectly for each job at Dublin Airport. In 2010, there were 18...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: I want to raise a very local important issue. It concerns St. Mologa's school in Balbriggan and is affecting 463 children. The school now has 16 prefabs. The children have been in prefabs for years. It is terrible to think that in 2017 children are cold at school during the winter and too hot in the summer. They are on the list for a new school, but there is no firm date and no hard...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: I thank the Cathaoirleach.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: In fairness, I need to take up the matter with the Cathaoirleach on the basis that last week I raised an issue about pensioners on the Order of Business and we had a Commencement debate on it this week. Second, this is an issue that cannot be addressed properly during the course of the Order of Business but which can and deserves to be raised. I hope the Cathaoirleach will reflect on this...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Pensions Reform (24 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: The issue I wish to raise here today is one I raised on the Order of Business last week and it was dealt with in the Lower House as well. It is an issue that is not going to go away, namely, the inequity in our pension situation whereby at least 23,000 women are being disadvantaged by the pensions system in a manner which was brought about and exacerbated by legislation passed in 2012. I...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Pensions Reform (24 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I must emphasise that addressing this injustice - that is what it is - cannot be put on the long finger.Women need a strong signal from the Government that this matter will be addressed. We are all realistic and understand there are limits with the public finances. It is intolerable for women, however, that every time they collect their...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: Your acuity of vision is legendary, a Chathaoirleach. I wish to raise an issue relating to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy. People will know that there has been a major problem in the country in the past ten or 15 years with building estates and housing estates being taken in charge. We have a situation whereby companies went bust during the...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: The Senator should look to the gentleman sitting beside him.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: Senator McDowell is a good man.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: In response to the first speaker, he is busy in the Chamber, but if he threw his eye over to the other Chamber occasionally, he would have heard the Taoiseach's comments about tracker mortgages, the Government's exasperation with same and the time for action. In that context, last week I mentioned Sparkasse in Germany. It has been in business for 200 years and is a community not-for-profit...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: People are phoned, the call cuts off before they can answer and, when they ring the dialler back, they are put straight through at an exorbitant rate to an answering machine speaking in an Arabic tongue somewhere else. People everywhere are being caught. The operator, 3, has blocked the number, so I wonder what the other operators will do to protect customers from this scam. The best...

Seanad: Legal Metrology (Measuring Instruments) Bill 2017: Second Stage (19 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and I fully understand the exigencies of his duties in the Lower House and how that can interfere with timekeeping. I echo Senator Mac Lochlainn's comments with regard to the Oireachtas Library and Research Service. The staff there are invaluable in what they bring to Bills and in helping Members understand the purpose of proposed legislation....

Seanad: Legal Metrology (Measuring Instruments) Bill 2017: Second Stage (19 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Legal Metrology (Measuring Instruments) Bill 2017: Second Stage (19 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: Next Tuesday at 2.30 p.m.

Seanad: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: I agree with the last speaker that we should be prepared to discuss these issues and I fully accept the good intentions behind the Bill. However, I feel it is my duty as a prescribing doctor to correct some of the statements made by Senator Norris, whom I heard state that Prozac was absolutely contra-indicated in people with Asperger's syndrome. This is not the case. It needs to be...

Seanad: Flood Prevention Measures: Statements (18 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State and wish him well in his portfolio. I could spend time here talking about coal in China, about individual conspicuous energy consumption in the United States or about deforestation in Brazil and so forth. What affects us here in this country, however, are major recurring events, sometimes not so major, in fact, but occurring rather on a local level. In my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: I apologies for not being here earlier. I was in the Seanad and got waylaid on the way back. I have read the delegates' documents and some of the comments they have made. I have a few questions. Some were asked already. If rates are not based on rent, as they are at present, on what should they be based? I wish to comment on the positive element of the budget in regard to the VAT...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: My apologies. Are there any other suggestions on reducing costs for SMEs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

James Reilly: The Government has put in place micro-finance and various other initiatives to ensure further availability of finances for SMEs. Sparkasse bank representatives were before another committee. Sparkasse is an independent 200-year-old community bank from Germany seeking to set up here. It specialises in old-style banking that entails walking the land with the farmer or going to the business...