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Seanad: Budget 2026 (Finance): Statements (7 Oct 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Troy, go dtí an díospóireacht tábhachtach seo ar an mbúiséad agus ar an todhchaí. The measure of a good budget must surely be the degree to which it is strategically sound for the medium- and long-term future and the degree to which it works to achieve a fair, cohesive society, prioritising the...

Seanad: Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: At the outset, I join in the welcome to Councillor Paddy Meade, who has just temporarily left us, and the member of the Carter family, who are a very distinguished family in terms of public service in this country. I welcome my good friend the Minister of State, Deputy Emer Higgins, to the House. She certainly does not let the grass grow under her feet and will act on these...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Nitrates Usage (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: We all support that.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Employment Rights (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for coming in to represent the Minister, Deputy Burke, and I thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this important matter. The Minister of State, Deputy Healy-Rae, said earlier that the last matter raised was timely and he was correct. I hope this matter is similarly timely and appropriate. The Government is in the process of preparing an action plan on...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Employment Rights (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I appreciate the line that the Government has progressively increased the rate of collective bargaining. To truly do that properly, we just need that three things that I set out: the legislation to support it; stronger protection for workers' representatives - it is very important that people are not disadvantaged in this sphere for seeking to represent their colleagues; and a clear right of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Whyte for being here. As others have said, thanks are due to his team and to all of UNRWA's individual workers. The conditions they are working in are shocking. A lot of issues have already been covered so I will make a brief comment and then ask a question. As Mr. Whyte said himself, there are no words to describe this. It is beyond anything acceptable in terms of the human...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Like the Irish Famine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: In the long term, the physical and mental development of kids and youngsters will be impacted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Even the starvation will have implications, will it not, for their natural development?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I would be very afraid of that. I thank Mr. Whyte.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I was at a different briefing on the situation in Gaza another day and the experts there were telling us that there was general anarchy now, that the whole - what might appear to be quasi-democratic - structures are completely broken, governance is broken down, there is anarchy in the streets and everywhere else, and all sorts of local people taking over control arbitrarily. What would Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The situation with Hamas-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: -----and where Hamas stands.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Yes, of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Whyte. He has answered me well.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank our guests. It is great that this fine strategy is in place and getting started. I will ask some questions and make some comments and I invite the witnesses to reply to each individually. Ms Baxter said that 17 family link workers have been appointed, which is great. I ask her to tell us a little about the geographical spread and what precisely they will do. Will they focus on...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Have the 17 link workers started? Are they well spread geographically?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Ms McEvoy was saying they work with families.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Will they work on everything in the family home? Let us say a family has a child in secondary education and a child in Early Start education, will the link workers try to get all of them motivated and going?