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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I want to come back to one of the points the professor raised about the approximately 25 things to have regard to in section 3. It sounds to me as if the Professor is concerned that it may become a little bit of an exercise in box-ticking. I wonder would it be better, or complementary, to have expertise in some of those areas, for instance health, on the council. There are obviously...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank both witnesses for joining us. As a member of the Government and of the Green Party in particular, it is important to me to tie future Governments to this area. It is important to recognise that at this stage all of us in this room want to tighten up the legislation. Dr. Church's sixth point was that the UK Climate Change Act has failed, specifically on the fourth carbon budget,...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister. I have been asked that the Government take a survivor-led approach to this. The Minister's comments today show that that is what he will do from now on. Generation after generation has been let down by the State imposing its will on people. I thank the Minister for his comments on that. To speak directly to the amendments, the Minister has shown he has taken on...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: The conversation we had last week in the Seanad was specifically around this issue relating to the Government amendments Nos. 2 and 10. Their specific purpose is to address the concerns Senators have raised. Senator Ruane spoke to this issue incredibly well and powerfully last week. In the terms of reference and in the leaflet that was given to those who came before the confidential...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I welcome the increase in the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, this week and the commitment by the Minister with responsibility for higher education to re-examine the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grants. However, it is important that we put in place supports for students immediately. Some students have on-campus commitments and rental commitments. We need a proper process...

Seanad: Electoral (Civil Society Freedom)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I commend Senators Ruane and Higgins on introducing the Bill. It concerns an issue that many of us in the House will have come across, given that in most cases we will have come to politics through our community activism. I have had involvement with many of the groups mentioned and know that many of the problems have existed for 20 years, putting undue pressures on small groups on which the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for appearing today. It is important to state that there is a big difference between when a Bill comes into a committee and when it goes out. I thank the witnesses for their expertise. We are not going to be in government forever, so we want to achieve the most robust Bill that we can because it will be future Governments that will be held to account by it. On...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I am still a little confused as to how the interim targets will work with the climate budgets. They seem to be two different things. Perhaps the witnesses will give us a note on this, unless they can go into it in more detail. I know they have explained it but different Acts take different approaches, with some interim targets and some budgets. How would the two work together if they were...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I also agree with the sentiment of the amendment. As the Minister said in his earlier contribution, he intends to bring something forward next year. What we have seen through the previous Dáil and Seanad is how difficult it is to progress this legislation. The legislation before us is a step in the right direction but a lot of stakeholder engagement needs to happen from this point...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I can agree with an awful lot of what has been said. As Senator Bacik said, we need to talk about this. We need to talk about the State collusion and shame on the one hand and the abuse on the other hand. I come from a constituency that is deeply impacted by this and I have been contacted by a number of my friends in this regard in recent days. It is incredibly difficult to put a shape on...

Seanad: Budget 2021: Statements (14 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister and thank him for joining us today. We are in the grip of a global pandemic and are facing into Brexit. We have never been in more uncertain times. We need to ensure that the country is prepared and people are supported and, as we recover, that it will be a green recovery, putting our economy on a sustainable footing for future generations. While we support families...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for joining us today. I have a technical question, however before I ask it. I wish to ask Mr. Carroll what his view is on the comment that this Bill represents a weakening in comparison with the 2015 legisation. Purely factually, looking at the terminology in 2015 in comparison with this Bill, we are talking about net-zero emissions, and there is no numerical figure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: To be clear, if we were to transpose the language around "must ensure" to our section 3, does Mr. Carroll believe that other sections would need to change as a result of that?

Seanad: Leaving Certificate 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I again welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for her dedication and all the work she has put in. This year has been a particularly difficult one to be a Minister as all of us, across the House, recognise. I have just come from a meeting of the Joint Committee on Education, Higher and Further Education, Research, Innovation and Science at which the Minister with responsibility for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Minister with responsibility for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (8 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister and Minister of State, and congratulate them on their appointments. I thank the Minister for raising the issue of consent, and I welcome his call today for this committee to examine it and to work with him on the issue. To pick up on the point he made on the amount of sexual violence in third level institutions, I would like to say that that is where we know the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Minister with responsibility for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (8 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I sit on a governing authority.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Minister with responsibility for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (8 Oct 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the Minister and the committee will respond to his comments in due course. On the north-west region, I know the very welcome investment was mentioned by Senator Dolan earlier. I would like to draw the Minister's attention to the report by the Northwest Regional Assembly that showed that the funding is €141 per head for the north-west region in comparison to €197 for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I wish to bring the attention of the House to the high number of dialysis patients in Ireland who have contracted Covid-19. I was contacted late last night by a person who appeared on the RTÉ "Prime Time" programme last night. Some Senators may have seen it. The individual in question is on dialysis and awaiting his third transplant. Not only have 92 dialysis patients contracted...

Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for allowing me to speak and I thank the Minister of State for returning to the Chamber. Some Senators have suggested she may be bamboozled. I think it may actually be the case that many of the Members are allowing themselves to be bamboozled. My experience of the Minister of State is that she is rarely bamboozled. We are losing sight of the fact that this...