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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.

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I ask Deputy Mattie McGrath to allow the debate to continue.

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Thank you, Minister.

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: The Minister can reply in a moment.

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: I ask Deputy Kelleher to conclude to allow time for the Minister's response.

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: Deputy Kelleher's time is concluded.

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: The Minister to continue without interruption.

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: This is not Deputy McGrath's matter.

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

Joe O'Reilly: It is Deputy Kelleher's matter.

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2013)

Joe O'Reilly: I hope this section is the correct one, but the Leas-Cheann Comhairle can correct me if I am wrong. While all of us in local authority areas in all constituencies accept the great priority of the city of Dublin in terms of population and its particular difficulties and while we are all in favour of dealing with it, we are afraid that in the process of dealing with it, without strong...

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2013)

Joe O'Reilly: I want to raise with the Minister of State the matter of the pensions of staff who transfer from county councils to Irish Water. It would be a huge imposition on councils if they had to continue to fund these pensions as they fund the pensions of staff from within their own resources. Such an imposition would present a huge bill for them. I would like the Minister of State to indicate how...

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2013)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I am reassured by and happy with that response. Encouraged by that success, may I raise another question under this section?

Water Services (No.2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Dec 2013)

Joe O'Reilly: I accept the concept of metering and payment for the supply for water from the point of view of conservation of water, the maintenance of a proper infrastructure and general equity, but as I accept the principle, it is also important to have a robust household allowance system in place. That is provided for in the programme for Government and will be defined in a budgetary context each year....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Annual Report 2012: Discussion with European Court of Auditors (17 Dec 2013)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome Mr. Cardiff and his team. I share my colleagues' concern about the increasing error rate, which is hardly good news. As regards the agriculture sector, I was heartened to hear Mr. Fennessy say Ireland was not high in the error, misappropriation or irregularities rankings. My own observations support that view. From my constituency work, I know that the bulk of farmers' mapping...