Results 101-120 of 358 for cavan speaker:Joe O'Reilly

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...sporadic and there are blackspots. One can drive to areas where there is no mobile coverage. I know of three or four areas with no mobile coverage within a very short radius of my home in County Cavan. The situation is replicated throughout County Monaghan and various parts of rural Ireland. The solution must be further investment by the private sector. The Government and,...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...of where they come from and where and how it all began. Of course that is not the kind of teaching that is prejudiced; it is holistic, fair teaching of history. In a community like mine in Cavan and Monaghan, and all along the Border, it is particularly necessary. In the context of Brexit, the people understand where the various traditions are coming from. In the decade of centenaries...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: I make these remarks today as a Border representative, as somebody from the Cavan-Monaghan constituency, who lives close to the Border where we have many ties of kinship north of the Border. I wish to publicly appeal through this House to our Northern friends right across the divide, who are hard-headed, shrewd business people with a particular business culture, to look twice at this...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...that make it difficult to farm and have much higher costs of production. Direct farm payments must be increased in those areas. It is important particularly in the Border context, including in Cavan and Monaghan, as we prepare for Brexit. There is a crisis in the suckler cow area, specifically premia for suckler cows. The Irish Farmers Association held a very well-attended protest...

Seanad: Post Office Closures: Motion (19 Sep 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...and of other businesses taking over, this should be looked at. Small towns are the focal point for a wider hinterland or community. They are the centre for local businesses. In Killeshandra in Cavan, for example, the post office is threatened with closure. Lakeland Dairies, which is a major agrifood business and a major employer, is located nearby and there is a myriad of small and...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...work done by the PEACE IV programme, funding for which comes through the European Regional Development Fund, ERDF. It brings €270 million into the country. Projects are 85% funded from Europe. Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Leitrim, Louth and Sligo directly benefit. The programme funds shared educational initiatives for children and young people among other projects. It is a very...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: I wish my colleague from Cavan, Senator Wilson, well in his presidential endeavours. I have known him down the years and he has a presidential gait.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...was a very good piece on the RTÉ news last night about the difficulties grain farmers along the south have. In the area where I live, there is a real issue with water shortages for farmers in Cavan and Monaghan. There have been challenges in a number of incidences. There is a challenge with the growth of a new cut of silage and in some instances, there are challenges with crop...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...on what we will do in that doomsday scenario. How will we support tourism, small business, food processing and manufacturing in the Border counties? What practical aid will be given to the people in Cavan, Monaghan and right along the Border to deal with what will be a frightening position if it arises?

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Statements (12 Jun 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: .... The obvious objectives are, of course, to have no hard border and to try to deal with sterling fluctuations. In that regard, it is important that we support the tourism sector across counties like Cavan and Monaghan and along the Border and that the Minister of State is conscious of this issue. Those areas are under threat, first, from a potential hard border, which please God will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (12 Jun 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...in a structured fashion? Was there an alternative to giving Eir the comprehensive remit to deliver to those 120,000 homes? Could ALTO have filled the gap? Regarding access to infrastructure, Cavan County Council held a briefing session with Oireachtas Members and told us that it had put a county level plan in place to ensure as easy and efficient a level of access as possible to...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...buses operate. They are extending until 11 p.m. at night on a couple of days at the weekend on a pilot basis over a considerable part of the country, including five routes in my constituency of Cavan-Monaghan. It is a good initiative because we have a real problem with rural isolation and people who are not able to access a social life. We must reconcile the absolute need for road...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...the representatives of Trócaire have said about the horror of what is happening in the developing world. I am interested in how we can strike a balance in that context. The community in County Cavan from whence I come has taken to wind energy generation with huge enthusiasm. It is one of the few communities where there has not been a negative reaction to or a popular protest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Implementation of National Mitigation Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: .... It is a pity that is how it worked out. I had asked about microgeneration and wind energy. The areas the North-South interconnector will pass through are Monaghan, north Meath and part of Cavan. The people affected are collectively of the view that it should be undergrounded. EirGrid's response is that if it is undergrounded, it will be less accessible for alternative energy,...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...and support for it. The Irish Government, our permanent Civil Service and our diplomats abroad should take a bow. This matter is so important to me because the people in my community, along the Border in Cavan-Monaghan, stand to experience economic and social devastation and potentially a breakdown of all societal norms if we do not avoid a hard border. I offer the House's appreciation...

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (1 May 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ..., as well as no customs duties. In deference to the Acting Chairman's ambition to accommodate all the speakers, I will conclude by saying to the Tánaiste on behalf of the people of the Border area in Cavan and Monaghan that this is life-and-death stuff. The whole society depends on this. We want him to hold the line right up to the end. There must be no flinching on the hard...

Seanad: Northern Ireland and 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (18 Apr 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...to go back to Cork at all hours of the night. This merits our acclamation and encouragement. It is clear from the Minister's remarks today that he is not letting up on that. I come from County Cavan, close to the Border, and I have an acute awareness of all that goes with this and all of the rawness of it. I can openly say that we were very close to being a Balkans situation at many...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: I rise today to speak of one matter alone. I express my deepest sympathy to the family of Big Tom McBride. As a neighbour from Cavan and as someone who had the privilege of meeting him on a couple of occasions, I can testify to the fact that he was one of nature's gentlemen. All of the things that have been said about his benign nature, his goodness of personality, the way in which he...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...price, margins being reduced and psychological and financial stress that that is creating for farmers. That brings the importance of the CAP into focus. To give a practical example, in County Cavan, current figures show that the CAP brings in €54 million while it brings in €41 million into County Monaghan. It is obviously crucial to the local economy.It could be said that...

Seanad: Ratification of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Statements (21 Mar 2018)

Joe O'Reilly: ...in the view that he is doing a huge job and that he is truly committed to what he is doing. He believes in what he does every day and that is great. He paid two visits to my native county of Cavan. That gives me the context to ask him to comment on the progress on the progress of the Holy Family school in Cootehill, which is a very important facility for my county and to comment on his...