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- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: It is absurd that as of today we do not start a school construction programme and that we do not put insulation in place. I appreciate the Cathaoirleach's indulgence. I will finish now. I ask the Leader to bring the Minister to the House immediately to debate this matter and to have him make a statement that will start the construction industry again. It is shocking. I was told yesterday...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: I want to support the view put forward by Senator Frances Fitzgerald that we should have an all-day debate in this House on the banking sector. We must look at the macro question as regards how dubious practices prevailed such as the artificial cooking of books as well as the transfer and withdrawal of moneys overnight. We have to look at the regulatory and auditing procedures that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: In a recent "Prime Time" programme the big developers, notably Mr. Wallace etc., were happy to admit they were not even paying interest, and yet consumers are being harassed on a daily basis. I am appealing to the Leader to set aside a day for such a debate. If it has to be a Friday, that is grand. We need to discuss banking forensically for the day and let the people's concerns be raised...
- Seanad: School Accommodation (11 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: Kildallon national school is 108 years old. The building has walls 12 ft. high. The rooms are very cold and the building is not insulated. It has been heated by storage heaters for most of this awful winter. The ceilings are so high that it is impossible to heat the building. The windows are wooden and single glazed. The classroom is an old, long and narrow room that contains 25...
- Seanad: School Accommodation (11 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and for his latter remark that he will examine the application made under the emergency works scheme. A total of 25 children are in the four classes in the old building and 22 junior and senior infants are in the prefab. The position is desperate. The principal and staff are not professional agitators and they made the application under the...
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: I am happy to second the vote of thanks to the Minister of State and endorse the remarks of Senator Walsh.
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: Ãr dtús, ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an Aire Stáit. As I said on Second Stage, I welcome this amending legislation and I accept the principle and the practice that Bord Gáis should be fit to borrow more money, implement its corporate plan and expand its business. Before I make my remarks about control, we have no reason but to have absolute confidence in the management and staff...
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for his thorough replies and genuine effort to address the issues raised. I was not entirely happy with his reply on energy prices. I would like him to tell the House that there will be action on energy prices this month. He mentioned double digit figures, as did the Minister in the Dáil. We should be talking about a 20% reduction. Let us be radical about...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: The most serious matter confronting the House and the country today is the recapitalisation of the banks. Unfortunately, I have received practical information over the past couple of days at home to back up what I will state and I want the Leader of the House to take it on board. At present, the banks are solving their problems on the backs of small businesses. They are ignoring the...
- Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: I would like to share time with Senator Healy Eames.
- Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an Aire Stáit. The proposals that are the subject of this debate are welcome only in so far as they mark the end of the period of prevarication, indecision and rudderless leadership. We have had no Government, in effect, for the last eight months. We have lost some of the international credibility we had built up. These measures are welcome only in so...
- Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: On a point of order, would it be in order to highlight to Senator O'Malley the fact that Fine Gael has made umpteen proposals?
- Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: We have the ideas.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (3 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: While I do not intend to interrupt the Minister of State unnecessarily, could we have a copy of his script, if possible?
- Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (3 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: Ar dtús báire, ba mhaith liom an tAire Stáit a fháiltiú go dtà an Teach. Gabhaim buÃochas leis as ucht an léiriú ag thug sé dúinn ar an t-ábhar tábhachtach seo. The objective today is to amend section 23 of the Gas Act 1976 and to increase the statutory borrowing limit of Bord Gáis Ãireann from â¬1.7 billion to â¬3 billion. This would allow Bord Gáis Ãireann to develop...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: I support Senator Fitzgerald's call that we reject the Order of Business in its proposed form. I join in the appeal to the Leader to reconsider at this stage the proposal that we debate this issue to show the relevance of this House to the public and to ourselves. We are talking about a crisis and of a whole policy position having come unstuck over a number of months. We are now back to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: In the light of the current situation, will the Leader arrange as a matter of urgency for a day-long debate on the creation of jobs in the green energy sector? We should have had an incentivised national insulation programme in place long before now that would assist the construction industry. In conjunction with that, we should have energy assessors working throughout the country....
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)
Joe O'Reilly: The introduction of co-operative wind farms, similar to the introduction of the creamery system in the past, should be a pillar of the debate on this area. There should be a move from transport being powered by oil to it being powered by alternative sources such as electricity and gas. In the context of such a debate that would address the opportunity to create green energy jobs, will the...