Results 41-60 of 5,112 for speaker:Joe O'Reilly

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I would be interested to hear the Minister of State's responses on the specifics and the general. I hope a good discussion can arise. I do not think there is one person in the country who is not totally committed to this. Through prudent management of the economy over years, we now have the money to do it. Money should be thrown at the problem insofar as money will resolve it, but there...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wastewater Treatment (8 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this matter, which impacts upon the lives of all our constituents. I welcome our colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, to the House. I am not sure if I have had occasion to congratulate him in this setting before. In any event, it is no harm to renew my welcome to him. Group sewerage schemes are generally a success and alleviate many...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wastewater Treatment (8 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes, although we could have finished this matter in a minute.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wastewater Treatment (8 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Well done. I accept that.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wastewater Treatment (8 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for his response. To refer to one point, I am delighted with the increase in the septic tank grants. That is good news. I take all the points the Minister of State made about investment. He said €100 million is available to Uisce Éireann and that is now being invested in smaller clusters of settlements in smaller schemes to provide wastewater...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wastewater Treatment (8 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I join with the Cathaoirleach and Senator O'Loughlin in paying tribute to the late Mary O'Rourke. Mary O'Rourke was humorous, witty, personable and formidable. One of my first public encounters with her was when I and the late Senator Mary Jackman - herself a highly intelligent, formidable woman - many moons ago decided to trip up Mary O'Rourke on a section of an education Bill she was...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Now.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I join in the welcome to the gentlemen from the Men’s Shed. Like me, I can see that they have a lot of accumulated life experience. They can only be impressed by being present in the Seanad when we are discussing such a serious matter. It has to give them some confidence in the institution that this is the material we are dealing with and that we are trying to alleviate one of the...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I want to make the same point here as then.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I told him that we could not know who would have ended up on Skid Row and whose lives would have been devastated without the intervention of the GAA in their youth. Similarly, we will never know who would have been victims of compulsive and problem gambling were it not for what we are doing today. I broadly support the principles of the amendments and am interested in hearing the Minister...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: As one of a trio of Senators, including Senators Wall and Cassells, who raised this matter and called for this legislation day after day in the Seanad on the Order of Business and so on, I congratulate the Minister of State on introducing this legislation in its totality and for his steadfastness in the face of very wealthy and powerful vested interests. It is to his eternal credit that we...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: In welcoming colleagues back I must strike a sombre note, a really tragic note, by saying that over the summer things have gravely deteriorated in Gaza to the extent we have 40 dead that we know of and 120 as an indirect consequence of the lack of supplies and hospitalisation. I have this from NGOs. Some 120 are collaterally deceased, making a total of 160. We have so many injuries and the...

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I want to say respectfully that I indicated my desire to contribute 20 minutes ago. I have to deputise for my colleague Senator Ward in the Seanad at 2.30 p.m.

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I have been indicating for 20 minutes. That is not fair. A normal courtesy obtains in this regard.

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I am going to insist on making my couple of points now.

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: It is bad form that I did not get in 20 minutes ago. I was indicating very clearly to all the officials as well.

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I must represent Senator Ward in the Seanad at 2.30 p.m. To get to the point here, I wish to start backwards. I am serious about that. I thank the Minister of State for being here. It is great that she is here and that she responded so quickly. I am going to look at a variation of today's debate. I am going to look at some positives. It is important that we do so. It is wonderful...

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I trust the Minister of State's the bona fides. She is an eminent lawyer. She will get this aspect right. With great respect to our distinguished company here, and I have been on this committee for a year, I am of the view that we are soon going to have to move away from the navel-gazing and semantic discussions that have been going on ad nauseam. A number of members do not have the...

Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (17 Jul 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I am. I have to go. I mean no disrespect to colleagues with my comments.