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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: At the outset, I formally second the proposal by Senator Buttimer to have a renewed debate on education and in so doing, to repudiate any attempt to muzzle my good colleague and Fine Gael spokesperson on education, Senator Healy Eames.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: I also wish formally to second the request for a debate by Senator Wilson on the TETRA system. While I welcome the system as such, the interference with television reception is not acceptable. Steps must be taken to deal with this matter and householders should not be left out of pocket. Senator Wilson did a good job of mentioning a list of towns in counties Cavan and Monaghan and...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: I wish to move on.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: I wish to move on briefly to another important item, on which I appeal to the Leader to facilitate a debate as soon as possible. I refer to the complete lack of a relationship between what is charged to consumers in retail outlets and what farmers receive at their farm gates. On average, retailers charge - this has been checked out - five times the amount that farmers receive at their farm...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: -----34% in the case of potatoes and farm incomes are at an all-time low.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: I ask the Leader for a debate on the reason this difference exists. Why is it that a farmer will only get 27% of the price of pigmeat compared with 51% 15 years ago? We need a debate on why farmers earn an average annual income of €13,000, why their prices at the farm gate are so low, why retailers are charging certain prices and why the consumer is paying over the top. This is a serious...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I support my colleague, Senator Coffey, in his proposition of this amendment. Three months is an unreasonably short time for any of our walks of life or businesses. To make considerable changes or even become familiar with the terms of the legislation, a three-month period is unrealistic. The amendment should be viewed in those terms. If the Minister accepts...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: I call for a very urgent and necessary debate on the tourism industry. It has been accepted wisdom for a number of years that the one industry in Ireland that we could depend on to continue sustaining and increasing jobs was tourism. We have all the right ingredients for a tourism industry and I do not propose to go through them. The debate is particularly urgent in light of the fact that...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: It is a tax on tourism and I call for its removal. Will the Leader bring forward a debate on tourism so that we can discuss how we can highlight and heighten our tourism business and link with the Irish diaspora abroad in the lead-in to St. Patrick's Day, thus building up our tourism business on a number of fronts. We have the heritage, the physical features and the musical and cultural...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: Diesel prices are no higher in Cavan than anywhere else.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: On a point of information.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: Diesel prices are no higher in Cavan than anywhere else. I want that remark withdrawn.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: Can that remark be withdrawn?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: Diesel prices in Cavan are lower than in most places and no higher.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: Is it in order that the House has been misled about the price of diesel in Cavan?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: Good. I am happy that is so.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: Ba mhaith liom aontú leis an Seanadóir Ó Murchú mar gheall ar seachtain na Gaeilge. Ba chóir dúinn cabhair a thabhairt don iarracht sin, agus páirt a ghlacadh ann. Aontaím go mór go bhfuil sé riachtanach go dtiocfadh ceannairí an tSeanaid le chéile agus rud éigin a eagrú ionas go mbeimid páirteach i seachtain na Gaeilge Yesterday, I met a family of somebody who lost their job...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: ——they say that coming events cast their shadows before them. I draw Senators' attention to a young man in the Gallery listening very attentively to today's business.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: I refer to young Mr. Patrick Wilson.