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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (9 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: ...we are at the stage where something that is so desperately needed by workers is being considered as inadequate to deal with it. It would have been better if we had started from a better place but we are where we are. I strongly encourage the Department to look at rebalancing this in favour of workers. There is not a person I have seen, as yet, certainly from speaking to people in the...

Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...done. It is welcome that we are having this discussion. It is regrettable that the opportunity to run with the Bill introduced by Deputy Quinlivan was not taken in the previous Dáil but, as was stated, we are where we are. Sinn Féin is not precious about solutions to this issue. We want to be constructive and work with all parties to ensure the safe and swift passage of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implications for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: ...of sectors that are currently facilitated by our common EU membership. There is no such thing as a good Brexit. We said this repeatedly and nobody majority on the island voted for it. However, we are where we are. In the event of a no-deal scenario, where will the first implications hit? Will there be a requirement at that stage for legislative change or will it have to come in...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...health insurance market exists because the Government champions it and because people are afraid of having to enter the public system, where they will have to wait for months or years for treatment. We are where we are because successive Governments have driven, as a matter of policy, the privatisation of aspects of the health service and the commodification of health itself. We have to...

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: ...the exposé. It is welcome, but it is not new. We know that it is there. Like Deputy Bríd Smith, I also wonder why action was not taken on this while the proposers were in government but it was not and we are where we are. Therefore, it behoves us to support this legislation. I personally am not convinced that it will do all that it is intended to do but I welcome the fact...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance (20 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: ...for their presentation. I have a few questions about the current structure, such as it is. I am reminded of the saying that if we want to get there, we should not start from here. Of course, we are where we are. Do the delegates believe the Department of Health or the HSE should be the greatest driver of the introduction of universal health care? Do they think the Department and the...

Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Apr 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: .... This is the crux of what is wrong in our mental health services: poaching from the mental health service because of a crisis somewhere else. If budgets are always accessible for other uses, it is easy to see why we are where we are. The Government is fire-fighting one problem as the flames are fanned on another. It is one step forward and two steps back. We should all be doing all...