Results 161-180 of 1,301 for speaker:Pauline O'Reilly

Seanad: Youth Mental Health and Guidance Services in Secondary Schools: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State and thank Senator Garvey for all her work on this issue. I second the motion. It was great to meet with the Institute of Guidance Counsellors this morning and with Jigsaw. One thing that stood out for me was the fact the nature of youth is changing and has changed. We were in a very different position a couple of decades ago. The Government has an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: My questions are for whoever wants to answer them and are not specifically for Professor Mathiesan. There was a reference to just 1% of Ireland having district heating. We do not have a history of collaboration when it comes to pretty much anything in Ireland but especially in construction, other than where a developer builds a housing estate or block of apartments. What are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: That is helpful. There are two ways to make anybody do anything, one of which is where it is in their best interest to do it, and a lot of people who are signed up to Dr. Connolly's organisation are in that space. The other is where it has been determined by law, regulations or a climate action plan, for instance, and local authorities all now have to develop their climate action plans. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I apologise for interrupting, but I did not mean that the developer would bypass the local authority in the sense they would never speak to each other or anything like that. I am looking at it only from the point of view of whether we have a couple of options. Of course, there still would be collaboration with the local authority even if we went down the route Dr. Connolly is talking about....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the Ministers for coming in. I will speak on transport and the Department's role in transport. They will remember the decision late last year on the Galway ring road, when An Bord Pleanála admitted it had not taken into consideration the 2022 climate action plan. A further glaring omission for me reading the judgment was that it did not mention it was a relevant body under the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the Minister. I am conscious of my time here. What I am hearing here is good news. I would say, to Deputy Bruton's point, a number of towns across Galway come under the town centres first project and they are advancing really well with local communities on board. Clifden is one of those. What I am not hearing in the Minister's response is the transport piece of that. Compact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: The Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, is very welcome back again in the Seanad. Social media has fuelled hatred but it has also put on display for all of us the dirty, filthy, underbelly of hatred in Irish society. That hatred has always existed. It may be fuelled by social media but what is the excuse when it comes to the way that Travellers have been treated across hundreds of years...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: It is about equality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I think I am the non-member. I appreciate the proposal and thank Deputy Cullinane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses and the clerk to the committee; I wrote to the committee asking to be here today. Ms O'Shea mentioned that some of the comments that have been made are a breach of promise to the electorate. Is it almost verging on a breach of the legislation itself? If you look at section 7, it states, "The Minister shall, not later than 3 years after the commencement of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: -----and we are now five years down the road. From a legal point of view, if we go much beyond this we are into the territory of breaching the Act itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: There is a narrative out there that people voted for the heads of Bill. Ms O'Shea is here as a legal expert so from her point of view, is it correct that people voted for this Bill in the amendment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Exactly, to legislate for termination of pregnancy. Ms O'Shea has looked into it. Is it fair to say the legislation itself is preventing women, in some instances-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: -----from accessing terminations? Therefore, it is again a breach of promise to the electorate-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: -----who voted for terminations. To go back to the point, according to the exit poll, 75% of people said they voted not based on the heads of Bill or any of the conversations at committee. Much as I would like to think that the thousands of doors I knocked on was persuasive, 75% of people said they had made up their minds at a very early stage. We now have this obligation on us to carry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Sorry I am being so brief; it is because of my time. On that point around decriminalisation, is it fair, from both witnesses' points of view, to say, from speaking to women or practitioners, that there is a chilling effect on doctors-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: -----from criminalisation?