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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our guests and thank them for being here. Returning to the question of social workers, I accept of course that they are needed. From my work in my area at home over the years, I know many other sectors of the population need social workers as well. It would be an unreasonable situation if the money to pay the social workers was ultimately coming from Traveller accommodation per...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: In a general sense, and I commend the overall role of the local authorities in this regard, but it should not be the case that the costs for the social workers come out of the budget for housing for Travellers. It would be very bad practice.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: That is reassuring. If there is any supplementary information, I would like to get that too.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: With great respect, I think it is wrong that social workers are being paid from the Traveller accommodation budget because social workers are needed by the entire population. We are not going to resolve the matter here and just wanted to put the matter on the record. On the HAP schemes, I presume the witnesses would agree the ideal is that few Travellers or indeed, very few or any of the...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: So not racially.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Do the witnesses agree that it is not ideal and it would be much better if people were in social housing?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes, it is not the ideal for anybody. In the initial presentation, reference was made to solar panels and retrofitting and fuel poverty. The latter is a real issue here and, God knows and God forbid, with what is happening in the world at the moment could become a shocking issue. Can the witnesses comment on how the retrofitting of Traveller houses fits into the overall retrofitting...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Well done and congratulations on that great initiative. Is Traveller housing part of the general retrofitting schemes in every county?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Last, I get the impression personally, but maybe I have not read the newspapers in sufficient detail, that the public opposition to Traveller housing has reduced. Am I correct?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I just thought specifically.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Is that right across the country?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: In my region we are very fortunate that way and have been.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Even within that, the councils do whatever can be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our guests and my former colleague from college. It is good to see you again. It is worth saying at the outset that we are individually and collectively horrified by the genocide in the form of the bombing and the starvation and indeed the recent spate of illegal settlements in the West Bank. The focus on the West Bank has naturally been lost a bit, but that is a horror too. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I will keep going and I might make it yet. I will ask all the questions. Do these “jus cogens norms” mean there is a general binding nature there but that they are not absolutely binding? That leads to my second question, in relation to EU law under the Treaty of Rome. Is it not a term of the Treaty of Rome that EU law in the form of regulations and directives, etc., is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I can look at the blacks later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Could we facetiously say that if we were to apply moral criteria to the bonds and impose rules on them other than those associated with the prospectus outlined last week, we might have very few bonds? Where do we begin and end with this kind of thing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: It is simplistic to say this but bonds connected to cigarette or alcohol companies and bonds of several rogue states, for example, are killing people daily. How does this work in practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Dr. Nuseibah has answered. Ms Mahony will take up the other points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: With respect, it is normal practice to seek the Attorney General's advice. Once the Government appoints an Attorney General, it must seek the Attorney General's advice on legislation and has to go by it. What does Mr. Marmion say to that?