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Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Nobody used those words.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Will it be €2,000 or €3,000? There is a question. Will the Minister give us a straight answer?

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Will it be €2,000 or €3,000? It is a straight question.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: He invited the question.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it €2,000 or €3,000?

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: What was the Minister doing on the radio?

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The cost-of-living crisis is over.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: He also said he likes to give a straight answer to a straight question. We are all sitting here riveted. We will get a straight answer to a straight question any minute now.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: For many students, this €1,000 hike is not just a number on a page. It is the difference between accepting a college place and not; between staying in education and dropping out; between progress and paralysis. It is not about affordability alone. It is also about credibility and trust and the repeated failure of the Government to live up its own words. The 2020 and 2025 programmes...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: There was an election in between.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: They do not pay in euros.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: In fairness to the Taoiseach, he has nothing to say.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The joint committee met in private session at 11.10 a.m., suspended at 11.29 a.m. and resumed in public session at 11.34 a.m.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I have to attend to some procedural matters. Everyone is welcome to this meeting. Some formal notices have to be read into the record. I remind members of the constitutional requirement that members must be physically present within the confines of the place in which Parliament has chosen to sit, namely, Leinster House, in order to participate in public meetings. I will not allow members...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Moran. I acknowledge this is his second time before the committee so I thank him for his time and for sharing his insight. I will open the floor to members of the committee who may have a question or comment. I call Deputy Buckley.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes. That, plus the information Mr. Moran has given us today, will very much help our deliberations and our guidance. I am struck by the fact that there was a lot of fallout from a good thing. Civil partnership and marriage equality are good, forward-thinking things. My party colleague Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh is bringing forward legislation to disregard criminal convictions that...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I have some questions. Mr. Moran paints a very good picture because we are not dealing with today but with an historic matter. For those born after decriminalisation, this might be very hard to understand. Much and all as I dearly wish I was in that category, as others here are, I am not, so I do have some understanding of the issue. It is hard to believe that decriminalisation only...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: It is the implementation of the letter of the law. It is open to Mr. Moran to correspond with us in relation to the amendment that he is proposing and to send it to me as Chair or to the clerk, as appropriate, as a formal proposal, and I hope he does so. We would very much welcome that. It will help us in our discussions. This is the second time he has been before the committee and I do...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Understood. That is very helpful in painting a picture of what it would have been like for Ms O’Donoghue having that conversation, to be able to say to her colleague in the Department of Finance, “I am telling you this person will never benefit from the scheme. We do not need to go into the details."

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (8 Jul 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: That is useful for the benefit of people who may not remember what it was like at the time. It is quite recent, in a scary way, although very distant from our perspective now. We need to look at it through that lens. It might have been blindingly obvious that equality legislation was coming at us at some point closer to it, but in the seventies and eighties, that would not be the case at...