Results 61-80 of 358 for cavan speaker:Joe O'Reilly

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Responses to Brexit in Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (26 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ...of the Minister's presentation and I applaud him on it. I would like to hear him speak even more about it. The Minister made a virtual visit to our excellent post-leaving certificate college in Cavan recently. There is no reason it should not be a feeder college for institutions in Northern Ireland, and its equivalent in Northern Ireland be a feeder college for institutions here. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ...create some sort of a desire or confidence to actively seek work. In that context, Ms McDonagh's point about lifting all boats is relevant. We have an excellent Traveller accommodation centre in Cavan. If a couple of people there got jobs, Ms McDonagh's point arises in that it would create an expectation and a desire in others. I ask for a comment on community employment, CE, schemes....

Seanad: Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Mar 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ...is approximately €116 billion worth of contracts in the national development plan. That imminent expenditure, which is wonderful, brings into focus this whole question. I had a relation in Cavan who had a healthy thriftiness, a condition that is much caricatured by Niall Tóibín, of course, incorrectly. This particular relation of mine had a certain thriftiness about him...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Impact of Covid-19 on Gender Equality: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ..., but it is clearly exacerbated by the Covid situation, with people being at home together and all that goes with that. It is a real issue. Without seeking to be parochial, in my own county, in Cavan town, we need a women's refuge. The ideal would be that we did not need these things in the first instance but, sadly, we do. We do not have one there and the nearest women's refuge is in...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Cross-Border Healthcare Directive: Discussion (8 Mar 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: .... The scheme is a wonderful bit of self-help and a wonderful initiative. Like Senator Gallagher, I come from an area with a large PDFORRA presence. There is a large PDFORRA membership living in Cavan town and beyond. It is a very good initiative. The witnesses from the earlier session would suggest that there will be a continuation of the cross-border directive. I hope that the...

Seanad: Councillors' Pay: Motion (22 Feb 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ...LAMA and the AILG and I am getting great feedback on that engagement. Now is the time for action. I appeal to him to push this change down the last bit of the road. I had the opportunity of serving on Cavan County Council for more than 20 years, including as cathaoirleach. It was a huge honour. It is a very diverse council but, in general, one can only have a diverse council when there...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of Brexit on Trade Connectivity and Trade Flows: Discussion (15 Feb 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome Mr. McArdle to the meeting. He is a neighbour of mine from just across the Cavan border in south Monaghan. I know his family very well. On that basis, I am happy to welcome him, although there are very serious reasons he is with us today. I will address a number of those reasons with him very briefly. From other meetings I have attended, we have been led to believe that the...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: IBEC and Food Drink Ireland (9 Feb 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ...be got from it. That has significant implications. I come from a Border county. Could Mr. Kelly elaborate on what he stated about the milk? There is significant interplay in respect of milk between Cavan and Monaghan and the North. For example, more than half of the milk Lakeland Dairies in Bailieborough sources is from Northern Ireland. That experience would be repeated along the...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Committee for the Executive Office, Northern Ireland Assembly on Impact of Brexit (2 Feb 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ...-Border schemes. I have been involved in helping some of them with the process of making their applications and completing forms, as, I am sure, other colleagues have. Quite a number of people in Cavan have made such applications. I am sure they benefited from having their treatment in Belfast and meeting people there. It all adds to a good picture of relations. I fully agree with the...

Seanad: Response to Covid-19 (Housing, Local Government and Heritage): Statements (1 Feb 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ..., who lost her dear mother, Teresa Keogan, last week. Teresa, in her own right, apart from being Sharon's mum, is from a family that has given years of very distinguished public service in County Cavan and very distinguished service to the GAA. I want to acknowledge that. As I call him to conclude, I want to thank the Minister for his kind remarks about the people who work with the...

Seanad: Retirement of Staff Member (17 Dec 2020)

Joe O'Reilly: ...of this. She was one of the finest public servants here. She also has a lovely personal demeanour and accessibility and a way with people. She spent more than 40 years here. She is a proud Cavan woman, a native of Mullahoran, which is a great GAA area. She is a great lover of Gaelic games and would return to Cavan for all significant matches, which we do, occasionally, win. Josie...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Developments in Georgia: Engagement with Ambassador of Georgia (10 Dec 2020)

Joe O'Reilly: ...go to Georgia. Certainly the region where I live and where I come from have a very developed food processing sector. Has much been done to link up with the very large food processing firms in counties Cavan and Monaghan like Lakeland Dairies and Glanbia? Perhaps the ambassador might speak specifically about the issue. I strongly support Georgia's accession to the EU because therein...

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Joe O'Reilly: ...attractiveness to the UK market. Our UK tourists are a huge part of our tourism product, including returning emigrants and the descendants of the Irish emigrants of generations past. We in County Cavan have been working very hard to develop our tourism product in recent years. We have had a lot of success. A lot of potential has not yet been realised, particularly in fishing and other...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (17 Nov 2020)

Joe O'Reilly: ...good hearing. I join in welcoming the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, who now represents the people of Sligo-Leitrim but whose family origins are in Roscommon. There is significant pride in Cavan, Monaghan and all that region in Cavan General Hospital. It has been part of the fabric of that area for the past 30 years. We must acknowledge the Herculean efforts of the staff during the...

Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Sep 2020)

Joe O'Reilly: ...the agenda. There has to be a process and a spatial development plan for forestry. I have a background in farming, given that my family were farmers. On every farm, particularly in the area of Cavan, Longford and Leitrim, there will be 8 or 10 non-arable acres that could not only be planted, provide a shelter and have a beneficial effect on our environment as a carbon sink, but also add...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (18 Sep 2020)

Joe O'Reilly: ...services here was that they should not attend. They appreciate that good advice and they are observing it. I thank them for the years of love, support and affirmation. We all thrive on affirmation. I acknowledge and thank Mary Keogan, a cousin of Senator Sharon Keogan, who fronts my Cavan office, and Mary O'Connor, who is very well known to the Members of this House, who fronts my...

Seanad: An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála eile ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail), 2020: An Dara Céim - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Second Stage (20 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Reilly: ...for his rallying call to the nation the other night, I pay tribute to the GAA clubs throughout the country and the scouting leaders who contacted me yesterday to offer the use of their facility in Cavan. All such voluntary groups that are helping throughout the country are heroes and we should be proud of them. Sadly, they may be needed to a greater extent in the future. The strategy of...

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Joe O'Reilly: ...is a continuous force for good in our country, is available to all of us and works in a very real way, which is good. A remark made earlier merits repetition. I have had the privilege of serving on Cavan County Council, and indeed being cathaoirleach of it for a term.I have had the privilege of serving here and in Dáil Éireann, and I have to say that the vast majority of people...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: ..., Deputy Bruton, to the House in the new year to discuss the climate change agenda with special reference to rural Ireland. I am thinking of two very important issues that are clear in places such as Cavan and Monaghan, where I come from, and throughout rural Ireland. The first is the question of rural transport. If we are to move away from diesel cars and carbon emitting vehicles, we...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the announcement in the budget of the recruitment of 700 new gardaí. I further welcome the fact that 15 new gardaí were deployed in the Cavan-Monaghan division after March and that at the recent meeting of the Committee on Justice and Equality, the Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris, announced that an armed support unit would be deployed to Cavan. I am also hoping that...