Results 18,101-18,120 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly

Social and Affordable Housing. (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: This is 2010.

Social and Affordable Housing. (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: It was.

Severe Weather. (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: I concur with the Minister in his praise of those who worked very hard. I would liken them to troops in the field who fought bravely to maintain the roads and services. Is there something about the Minister's constituency and being leader of the minor party in a Government with Fianna Fáil that leads the general to abandon his troops in the middle of battle? That happened with the leader...

Severe Weather. (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: It did not. I drove on it and I know it did not.

Severe Weather. (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: People in the rest of the country could not access the primary roads.

Severe Weather. (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: It is a figment of the Minister's imagination that the roads were open.

Severe Weather. (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle took his life in his hands when he travelled from Wexford up to Dublin on the N11. The Minister should try to give us the facts.

Severe Weather. (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: There was a large hole in the Government.

Civil Partnership Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: I am very pleased to contribute to this debate and I congratulate the Government on bringing this Bill forward. I know that some speakers do not feel it goes far enough, but it is useful to remind ourselves from whence we have come. It is well within living memory when homosexuality was a crime in this country. Before that, it was even considered to be an illness. Awareness and...

Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: I would like to raise two issues. The human tissue Bill is listed on section C of the Government's programme. We are spending large sums of money on a transplant programme that is not delivering. We have low numbers of lung transplants. Young people with cystic fibrosis are dying unnecessarily. We are pouring money into this programme. The Bill in question has yet to come before the...

Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: There is a need for an urgent review of our transplant operations because our figures are appallingly low. When will that Bill come before the House? I would also like to raise the licensing of health facilities Bill. It has already been pointed out that there are 500 people on trolleys, which is more than ever before. Some 272,000 bed days were lost last year, which represents an...

Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: Four years have passed since calls were made for the crisis to be treated as a national emergency. The Tánaiste needs to tell the House when the licensing of health facilities Bill will be introduced. Is it planned to give licences to facilities where people have to eat their lunch off waste bins?

Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: Will facilities where people have to spend two and a half days on trolleys in wards be licensed?

Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: I am sorry.

Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: Every single day, one hears anecdotal evidence of people having to spend two and a half or three days on trolleys in this city and around the country.

Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: What does the Government intend to do about it?

Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: The Government puts everything on the long finger.

Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: Is he in the attic with the rest of them?

Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: I wish to inquire about two items of legislation-----

Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)

James Reilly: On the same subject, the Minister promised to examine this issue and introduce legislation as a matter of urgency. Children are being deleteriously affected by this problem. There have been admissions to psychiatric hospitals and at least one death has occurred. We have also had cases of serious injury caused by people jumping off roofs and so forth. This is a serious issue which must not...