Results 601-620 of 1,301 for speaker:Pauline O'Reilly

Seanad: Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Jun 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: When is it proposed to take Final Stage?

Seanad: Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Jun 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State. He is very welcome to the House. This is important legislation. It will help to take anonymous money out of politics, to take online misinformation and bots out of politics and to bring more voters into the system. It will regulate online political advertising, standardise and simplify the electoral register and protect the integrity of our elections....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: I am sorry but I have to dash off to vote. I thank the witnesses for putting on the record all of the work they do. Most of us here have experience in education. I have been chair of a school board of management myself and we had an SNA on the board. However, it should not be on a school-by-school basis. What can we do to have a more standardised approach? There is a standard approach...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank all the delegates for attending. This is a topic I feel very passionate about. I spoke at the same joint committee as Mr. Dunne on the very issue of the constitutional amendment. It is no exaggeration to say every political party bar our own has been seeking to delete the part of the Constitution in question. Sometimes it feels like you are shouting against a stream when it comes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: We will move to first names.

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: The Minister of State is very welcome. It is good to see him here again. What is the number one thing we hear on the door as members of the Green Party? We hear about plastic pollution and about litter in general. Dumping is probably the number one thing anyone hears when going to the doors, particularly in rural areas. Where does that come from? It comes from the fact that we have...

Seanad: Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (14 Jun 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: I welcome our guests. It is very important that they are here to provide the testimony of their own people on the floor of the Seanad. What better way to show that we are all in this together than to watch parliamentarians from our two nations here on the floor of the Seanad. From the bottom of my heart, I thank all four members of the delegation for putting on the record of this House...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Supports Provision for Displaced Ukrainian Students: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: The witnesses are all very welcome. I thank them very much for their comprehensive overviews. I listened very attentively and a large part of what they are talking about is access to more therapeutic mental health services, more urgent assessments and English language supports. We would expect many of those services in schools in any case but that all needs to be stepped up. Obviously, it...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: Amendments Nos. 200 and 201 are related. Amendment No. 201 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 200. The amendments will be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: Is the Senator pressing the amendment?

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: Amendments Nos. 202 and 203 are related and may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: Is Senator Higgins pressing the amendment?

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the Minister and her staff for their engagement with me on the issue of formula and breastfeeding. I hope there is recognition that when the Bill includes sugar and salt it must be broadened to other public health matters. I will not go over old ground because I spoke extensively on the impact of advertising on breastfeeding rates in this country and that it is no surprise that we...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: I will be brief. I thank the Minister for taking on board the comments on formula milk and referring back to us. I reiterate my thanks to her departmental officials for speaking to me and engaging on this. It is important that something will come back to us on Report Stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for their comments. I agree with Deputies Christopher O'Sullivan and Bruton about the electric vehicle charging points. It is frustrating when so much funding is available and people fail to apply for it. We have a problem in Connemara too, so it is not just Westport. It goes to the heart of the point I am going to make, which is we have to bring communities with us....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: I do not know that it is. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has to implement some of these things, but it comes down to experts in the area of sustainability and climate saying what is needed from local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: Maybe it is a question to leave there but it is important to have it on the record. Having worked as a councillor, although for a brief time, we brought in a climate adaptation strategy for the city and things moved on towards mitigation plans. There were no mitigation targets, which is my point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: Planning is difficult. I think it is a key part local authorities play. It relates to the kind of development we have, whether one-off housing, a more sustainable 15-minute city, or reinvigorating our town centres to make them more liveable. Is there somewhere to put targets in place for each local authority to have to adhere to? Do the witnesses recognise the role that plays in reducing...