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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: That scheme was transformative.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I will not repeat any of the case just made.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: No. I have just one comment.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I have one comment on what my colleague was just saying. It occurs to me that this issue needs to be examined in respect of the area of health and the cases of nurses as well. Specifically in this context, though, concerning young gardaí and Garda recruits, we should consider purpose-built accommodation. Historically, this existed for the members of An Garda Síochána. We...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Purpose-built accommodation is needed.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: What about using derelict buildings and office-commercial spaces?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the witnesses. Could those from the Irish Traveller Movement provide the committee with their impression and breakdown of each county? The logic of my question is that all of us could use our judgment politically, through councillor networks and colleagues we have, as to how to use that information. If each of us members had the information for our regions, we might be fit to see...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: What Mr. Joyce is offering would be certainly helpful. It just occurred to me that apart from the Department briefings there is nothing to prevent us, through the secretariat, asking the relevant questions of the Department.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I ask the Cathaoirleach that we do this. It would be very interesting if we were able to sit down with a folio, a folder or an information sheet with great detail on each authority, as the witnesses perceive each authority's performance and its implementation of targets. If we had this, nothing would prevent us cross-referencing it with what the Department is saying, if we so wished. Mr...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: We cannot accuse people in the wrong. If we had the perspective of the witnesses on each county, we could make good use of it. We would be professional in its use and it would not be for public consultation until the witnesses would wish it to be.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Ms Brack thinks we would see detail in it.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Anything the witnesses decide to provide in order that we have their perspective would be helpful.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Mr. Joyce and Ms Brack could liaise with the secretariat and the Cathaoirleach with a view to getting us this information. It would be useful. Nobody would use it ridiculously.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: We have to get the action of course.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I could look at the counties in my region and see what they say officially to us and what the perspective of the witnesses is on them. It would provide a very interesting contrast. Deputy Buckley raised a point on modular homes. There is great underuse of modular homes in this country. I met the then Minister of State, Deputy English, whom the witnesses referenced earlier, to visit...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: It was part of the response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis, and a crisis it was, but that is not the brief of the committee. Of course, this crisis impinges on every other need. Modular homes were a big part of the response to this. If they were good enough to respond to that crisis, why not respond to this crisis with modular homes? A number of the questions asked by Deputy Stanton...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I apologies for interrupting but if people could see them. I was astonished. When I went and saw the show houses they were extraordinary.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: That is fair.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I was held up on other business, so I missed what was said earlier. However, I wish to be associated with the words of sympathy to the family of Tras Honan. I had the privilege of serving in the Seanad some time ago with Tras Honan. She was a very distinguished person. She was a person of great eminence, great quality in her own right and great integrity. She had a real presence and...

Seanad: Restoration of Oireachtas Library and Reading Room: Motion (28 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank and congratulate Senator Michael McDowell for bringing forward this issue. It is his vigilance that has brought it to our attention, and it is typical of him that he would be concerned about such an issue. We are grateful to him for this. He has done an important service tonight. This cannot go under the radar. I happen to have the privilege of working alongside in this House...