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Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: I will reverse the order now and invite Ms Daly to respond first. Each MEP has four minutes to respond.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: Ms Daly would win the Guinness world record for the number of questions answered in four minutes. I now invite Mr. Cuffe to replicate Ms Daly's performance.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank all the MEPs for the way they have been focused and engaged, and for the comprehensive nature of their answers. I ask colleagues to wait for the concluding remarks from Senator Ward, who will say some words of thanks on behalf of all of us. We have had excellent participation. The MEPs have shown how seriously they take these issues and that has been reciprocated here. We will...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank Senator Ward for saying what we would all wish to say individually. We would be here until 9 o'clock tonight if we did that. I thank the MEPs collectively. Go raibh míle maith agaibh uilig. Táim iontach buíoch daoibh.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Economic and Social Research Institute (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: I apologise because I did not hear the opening statements live. I welcome Dr. Barrett and Dr. Lawless and thank them for being here. It is a fascinating development, particularly for a person from the Border region, to see this great increase in North-South trade. I take the point about there being a similar diminution in east-west trade, because as Dr. Lawless said, Northern Ireland...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Economic and Social Research Institute (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: I do not want to interrupt Professor Barrett but does Professor Lawless think the new trading dynamic and business between North and South will be more North to South than South to North, but will remain significant in both ways, and that it will stand up to a resolution of the protocol and to the latest initiatives, for example, by the EU, or does Professor Lawless have any sense of what...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Economic and Social Research Institute (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: I would like to believe it would.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Economic and Social Research Institute (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: Does Professor Lawless think this trade could resist the outcome of these negotiations? If the nuclear option or the dreaded Article 16 were applied by the UK, would this accelerate this trade, increase it or have any implications for it?

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Economic and Social Research Institute (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: Form it took?

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Economic and Social Research Institute (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: Further opportunities.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Economic and Social Research Institute (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: Professor Lawless is effectively saying it has been an achievement that we have kept the food supply here, the shelves full and there has been inflation, but not too much, in the food sector in the context of Brexit.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Economic and Social Research Institute (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: That is good.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Economic and Social Research Institute (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes, I noticed that since and I said to myself I would not make an issue of it.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Economic and Social Research Institute (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: May I make one brief intervention?

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Economic and Social Research Institute (2 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: Absolutely. I apologise to Professor Lawless - my notes were wrong - for not using her proper title from the outset of the discussion.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (21 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: I have received notice from Senator Seán Kyne that, on the motion for the Commencement of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter: The need for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to make a statement on the potential of an offshore wind development at Ros an Mhíl pier, County Galway. I have also received notice from Senator Joe O’Reilly of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Wind Energy Generation (21 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: I am delighted to welcome my friend and colleague, the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, to her own Chamber.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Gambling Sector (21 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome my good friend and colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, to the House, of which he is a former Member. I am delighted he is back here in his ministerial capacity at the Department of Health. I was happy to have heard in recent days the good tidings that a gambling regulation Bill and the establishment of a gambling regulator may be imminent. I have advocated very...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Gambling Sector (21 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State. I agree with his assessment of the problem and all its human repercussions. My basic point, which I would like the Minister of State to bring back to the Minister for consideration, is the Department of Health should accept addiction to gambling is an issue for it and there should be ring-fenced money and delineated services, as for other illnesses. I appeal...

Seanad: Death of Sir David Amess MP: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: I did not have an opportunity to join with the Cathaoirleach in expressing my personal sympathy, and I know I speak for all Members, with the wife and family of the Sir David Amess MP in the UK. It was a horrendous crime against a wonderful family and against democracy. It is a crime against good values and everything that is right in humanity. It is a horror. We are conscious that today...