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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...

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

Joe O'Reilly: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I join in congratulating the Minister and, as she said, her officials on bringing forward this legislation, successfully piloting it through the Houses of the Oireachtas, and on the fact she is totally proactive and able to announce today that the agency is being set up, formed and actioned. That is so important. I am all too painfully aware that sometimes things like this can remain on the...

Seanad: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Now.

Seanad: Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State. It is a particular pleasure to do that, having served with him at the Council of Europe in the past. I salute how avant-garde he is and how much he is embracing this whole area, leading out on it and ensuring we are at the front in the area of regulating the use of AI both in the positive and controlling senses. I welcome our joining of the global...

Seanad: Sports Funding: Statements (21 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit agus tréaslaím go mór leis an méid infheistíochta in áiseanna spóirt atá déanta i rith na bliana. Chomh maith leis sin táim go láidir i bhfabhar na físe don todhchaí. I welcome the Minister of State. We are neighbours. I hope that will be reflected in the allocations to come and he...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister to the House. The proposed legislation is very welcome and timely. He is to be congratulated on that. As this is Second Stage, I will make a couple of initial general comments before getting more specific. It is worthy of stating, and should be acknowledged, that we have made great strides in reducing cigarette smoking in the population and the culture of acceptance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our visitors. Like my colleagues, I thank them for the work they do and note, as the previous speaker did, the risk and dangers their people experience. I will make an attempt to cover all areas or facets of the presentation. Mr. Rajasingham spoke about Afghanistan. I was invited recently to speak at a seminar on Afghanistan so I got to know a little more about it did previously...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Does Mr. Rajasingham feel that his UN office is succeeding and making progress there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Is it fair to ask, or is it outside the terms of reference allowed, if Mr. Rajasingham feels that the sanctions are helping or hurting no one only the ordinary people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Okay. I can understand that. It was my sense of it that this is all that is being affected. I will move to Ukraine for a moment. With the focus gone off Ukraine now in the international media, where is the UN at in terms of addressing humanitarian needs there? In his presentation Mr. Rajasingham referred to the Black Sea initiative getting the grain out. Is there a difficulty with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: That is right. I had heard that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: Is Mr. Rajasingham in anyway hopeful about being able to restore that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: The witness has answered a lot of questions around Gaza already. The situation for the UN aid workers in Gaza is shocking. I offer my sincere sympathy for them collectively on this. I offer our deepest sympathy. It is shocking to see that civilians are dying there and children are dying. Any death is dreadful but it is horrendous altogether that the UN aid workers are dying in this....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: An aid worker of the UN who wishes to leave at the moment could well be a prisoner and not free to go. Is that the dreadful reality?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: It is shocking. As a parent myself I can imagine that the families of these idealistic people who are doing the UN work might be trying to pull them home, in some instances.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: There is a problem now in the West Bank as well. Mr. Rajasingham did not comment on Jerusalem but he might do so. Perhaps he will also comment a little more, and then I will also have one last point on climate change. How big is the need on the West Bank? Maybe I did not pick up correctly what the witness said about the West Bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: It is a lot of people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Humanitarian Response: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (14 Nov 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: And Jerusalem?