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Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: ...13 people out of every 100 or in excess of 437,000 are unemployed. That should be the backdrop against which we approach any legislative package of this nature. Coupled with this is a crisis in farm incomes. In 2009 the average farm income was approximately €13,000, a bleak figure. There is a crisis in commodity prices for farmers, despite the fact that at farm gate level they only...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: ...item, on which I appeal to the Leader to facilitate a debate as soon as possible. I refer to the complete lack of a relationship between what is charged to consumers in retail outlets and what farmers receive at their farm gates. On average, retailers charge - this has been checked out - five times the amount that farmers receive at their farm gates. A farmer receives 20% of the retail...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: -----34% in the case of potatoes and farm incomes are at an all-time low.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: I ask the Leader for a debate on the reason this difference exists. Why is it that a farmer will only get 27% of the price of pigmeat compared with 51% 15 years ago? We need a debate on why farmers earn an average annual income of €13,000, why their prices at the farm gate are so low, why retailers are charging certain prices and why the consumer is paying over the top. This is a serious...

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: ...would not keep animals in the best of conditions is a non-runner on two levels. During the Second Stage debate, the Minister stated the purpose of the Bill was to deal with commercial dog breeding farms. None of us supports the abuse carried out in puppy farms. The extension of the provision to hunts is a sad departure from this objective. It is unnecessary, breaches a promise and...

Seanad: Energy (Biofuel Obligation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: ...present, 90% of Ireland's energy requirements are imported. Some 70% of our requirements in bio-fuels are imported and we spend €6 billion per year on imported fuel. We do this at a time when farm incomes are on the floor and farmers could do with second incomes, when some 437,000 people or 13 in every 100 people are without work and when the potential for green energy jobs in this...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: ...a day. I wish to focus on the entire spectrum of possibilities for job creation in the area of green energy, but most particularly on micro-generation. Small wind turbines could be set up on farms and on-site at businesses across the country, and this should be supported. Communities could come together, as the co-operative movement did in the past, and have a community generator....

Seanad: Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2010)

Joe O'Reilly: I understand the objective and reasoning behind the Bill, and more particularly the cause of the Bill's introduction. None of us would attempt to condone puppy farming, which in some instances was an horrendous abuse of vulnerable animals and represented cruelty beyond measure. Nobody would attempt to defend that and everyone accepts the need for remedy in that regard. In principle we have...

Seanad: Farming and Agrifood Sector: Statements (9 Dec 2009)

Joe O'Reilly: ...in that context. It is important for us to defend our ground in the CAP negotiations. I would like to speak about the state of the agriculture sector at this time. Recent CSO figures confirm that farm incomes have decreased by 30% in the last year, on top of an 11% drop in the previous year. We already knew this because we had heard the stories of the people we represent. Farming...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Joe O'Reilly: ...local contractors and construction workers are unemployed. In the interests of creating further jobs, it would also be possible to develop alternative energy projects involving co-operative wind farms, consider the bio-fuel element and examine the VAT rate which applies. I ask the Leader to make time available for a two-day debate on specific solutions to the unemployment problem. If he...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2009)

Joe O'Reilly: ...be right. I wish to comment on the point made by Senator O'Donovan. This cannot be echoed often enough in the House. Nobody should interfere with the right of an individual — a young person, a farmer's son or a son of any other local person — to build a house on the family's farm or lands, within normal guidelines and with proper sewerage and so on. This should not be diminished....

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2009)

Joe O'Reilly: ...in the current circumstances, but we must address the matter. Second, the fact that Protestant schools are being attacked and closed has huge implications in my area. Poorer Protestants from small farms etc. were boarding in Protestant boarding schools in the provincial towns and they were not privileged or elitist. They wanted, and have the right, given the nature of things, to have...

Seanad: National Marine Mapping Programme: Motion (21 Oct 2009)

Joe O'Reilly: ...the essential, immediate and practical outputs or benefits from the mapping programme being commended. The INFOMAR programme began in the summer of 2006 with surveys of valuable fishing and fish farming areas in Bantry Bay, Dunmanus Bay and fish spawning areas off the south-west coast. The 2007 survey began in April of that year to extend coverage of the biologically sensitive area around...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2009)

Joe O'Reilly: ...again by Senator Mullen today was that of the rural environment protection scheme. I have one question for the Leader on this. Given that the removal of the scheme will push a large contingent of farmers into the farm assist programme and that 60% of the money comes from Europe while the other 40% is spent in the local economy, is it financially sound, apart from the environmental...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Joe O'Reilly: ...way. I would like green energy to be incorporated into the debate on unemployment. The people will thank us for it and will see us responding to their needs. I refer to the co-operative wind farms as we developed the creameries of old. Farmers and other groups should develop small wind farms and hydro energy. I ask the Leader for a full debate on unemployment, a real response to...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Reilly: ...that may have a greater impact on people's lives than any other legislation considered for a long time. This is an inherent weakness in our parliamentary system. Our amendment on tax credits for farmers hit by the changes affecting payments under the farm waste management scheme is very important. Farmers have two problems with the delay in payment under the scheme, the first of which is...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Reilly: ...I am enthusiastic about supporting the amending legislation because it will provide for committing Bord Gáis Éireann to develop renewable energy sources. It recently purchased a substantial wind farm for €80 million and will continue to develop wind energy. It is also good Bord Gáis Éireann is entering the electricity generation market and will become a competitor of the ESB. I...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (3 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Reilly: ...date and it is a very successful company. An interesting by-product of the current credit squeeze is its assistance to players such as Bord Gáis Éireann, which can afford to purchase major wind farms, as it has done recently. The strengthening of the hand of Bord Gáis Éireann in this regard is a by-product of our current position. I am impressed by the legislation's mandatory...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Reilly: ...programme in place long before now that would assist the construction industry. In conjunction with that, we should have energy assessors working throughout the country. Co-operative wind farms should be set up by farmers throughout the country——-

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Joe O'Reilly: The introduction of co-operative wind farms, similar to the introduction of the creamery system in the past, should be a pillar of the debate on this area. There should be a move from transport being powered by oil to it being powered by alternative sources such as electricity and gas. In the context of such a debate that would address the opportunity to create green energy jobs, will the...