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Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome and support the Bill. I hope it will be supported unanimously. "Catfishing" is a new term. It is a real issue for a great many people. From anecdotal and newspaper reports, we are all aware of vulnerable people and people who may not be so vulnerable whose money has been taken from them through this process. They believe they have developed a relationship with somebody akin to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses. This is an important review. I fully appreciate there is a level of overlap now, but it is important we all contribute. Before I do that, I want to say that our Defence Forces personnel serving with UNIFIL in Lebanon are in all our hearts and minds today. We can be so proud of them. It is a very distressing time for Army families all over Ireland. I have spoken to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: That is wonderful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Is there length and depth to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: To me, as a former teacher, one day does not sound like enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: The training would need to be regular, topped up and consistent over time, in addition to being monitored and evaluated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: It is a key element.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: A once-off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: It would be interesting to get an update on whether there is an improvement in their experience. Do they have enough training days? Do they get to do stuff? Do they get a sense of camaraderie and meeting up? My sense is that it is not consistent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Excellent. That is good news. It is exactly what we want to hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: The Cathaoirleach has obviously got some insights. You have the date, have you?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group (15 Oct 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: Minding the lamps and all.

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

Joe O'Reilly: I will begin where the Acting Chair left off. I concur with her remarks about my colleague Senator Carrigy who has taken this as his personal crusade in his first term in the Seanad. It is truly impressive that he has achieved so much in this area in one term. I know he is particularly committed to it. His achievements are mammoth and I congratulate him on that. I am certainly proud to...

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...