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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 I want that remark withdrawn.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Joe O'Reilly: Can that remark be withdrawn?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.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: The singular failure of the Government and the failure of politics at the moment is the failure to create jobs in this country. The fact is that in the region of 437,000 people are out of work and 60,000 young people emigrated last year. Those statistics are frightening. They are a shocking indictment of what we are doing. For that reason I support the proposition by Senator Ó Brolcháin...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: Could the Deputy Leader respond to my question on green jobs?

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (10 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: At the outset, I would like to provide a quick chronology of events at Kingscourt. I would also like to acknowledge that Councillor David Blake from Kingscourt has been working very hard on this project and has been lobbying me intensely on it. He wants me to convey to the Minister of Education and Science the community's anxiety on the matter. In 1968, Cavan VEC bought the requisite lands...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (10 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Does the Minister consider that with the physical building owned by the VEC, with classrooms, space and playing grounds, he should grant a roll number and allow the school to open with first-year students? I appreciate his comments on funding and arriving at public private partnership agreements later. Does the Minister of State agree with...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (10 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: I appreciate that. Given that it was decided to go ahead with this project, and we have the space and classrooms, we believe we can make a proper start now.

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: The case has been well made by my colleagues but one or two issues merit emphasis given the gravity of the problem. I appeal to the Minister of State to ensure written commitments are honoured. Failing that, he must explain the rationale for the policy change. I live beside a hunt known as the Drumlin Hounds in Cootehill. I am familiar with members of the hunt and know the dogs are well...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: A sledge-hammer is being used to crack a nut and it is wrong.