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Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: ...their illustrious Senator Maria Byrne speaking. They should wait for that as loyal Limerick people. I welcome the Minister. I acknowledge his proactivity in all these areas, how close to the farming community he is and how committed to all this. In a moment of great intergovernmental solidarity, Senator Lombard conceded the Minister is not responsible for the bad weather and I am...

Seanad: EU Regulations (Police Co-operation on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings): Motion (11 Apr 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: ...Millions of people are being trafficked globally. When we have our cars filled with petrol or washed and when we stay in hotels, we see people who are trafficked. They may be working on intensive farms. We need to be vigilant and conscious of the problem. The adoption of this regulation will be a step in the right direction but I appeal to the Minister to support the idea of having...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: .... Those are horrific statistics. Our hearts can only go out to those people. We are lucky in this country. We take so much for granted. We have peace here. Senator Lombard raised the importance of organic farming, and how it can never be the Cinderella of farming. He is absolutely correct. We should revel in the green agenda and in a more health conscious age. We should also revel...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Mar 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: ..., as was my neighbour from Longford, Councillor Paraic Brady, who is a prominent member. The association presented a dire case, stating that young people would not be able to stay in sheep farming. Senator Kyne went through the figures. They need to be subsidised within the next month. The pig sector got it earlier which was right. The sheep sector deserves to get €25 per ewe....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

Joe O'Reilly: ...from. It is a reasonable estimate that approximately one third of the production in Ireland is based in County Cavan. The witnesses might confirm that. There may be a relatively small number of farmers involved, but this takes in a large number of jobs. These are indigenous and local jobs, with entire communities built around the pig industry and pig farming sector. Schools and shops...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Mar 2022)

Joe O'Reilly: I must interrupt at this point to welcome to the Visitors Gallery Ms Mary McDonagh and her fellow senior executives from Ifac, which is a friend of the farming community and an integral part of rural Ireland. It provides an enormously professional service to our farmers and a support to our rural communities and, by extension, our small urban societies around the country. They are an...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pigmeat Sector (3 Feb 2022)

Joe O'Reilly: ...has increased by €120 per tonne. There is every prospect that raw materials will not get cheaper. The average sow unit is 500 sows, and it is currently losing €8,000 per week.There are welfare issues on farms because they are not able to pay for feed. Factories are struggling to clear the backlog of slaughter from Christmas. Northern plants have reduced kill from the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Dec 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ...in VRT if they buy electric. If they start with an electric car, they will buy into the concept and will never leave an electric car. They will also feel ownership of the climate change agenda. Each farm in the country has a few non-arable acres not in use. That should be planted, as was the case with a little shelter belt which would be a carbon sink. We should incentivise farmers to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ...be done in every community. A wind turbine should be put in each community for that community. That is the first point on which I would like the Leader to follow up. Second, a small section of each farm in the country could be planted rather than having an ambitious plan to plant whole tracts. A few acres of each farm could be planted. This could be incentivised. Most farms,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ...and way of life, namely, the current labour shortages in our country. The shortages affect many sectors. I will go through just a few of them. In respect of agriculture, there is intensive pig farming in County Cavan. The processing sector there is experiencing shortages such that batches of pigs cannot be sent for processing to create new stock. This is creating a nightmare scenario...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ...the Minister is a champion of this. We have to avoid energy poverty. Nobody wants our poor people to be the victims of this. That is why, with retrofitting and everything else, they need support. Our farmers are the custodians of the earth and very proud of it. They have bought in to this project, and I think the Minister knows that. There are a few things we can do such as in the...

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Second Stage (31 May 2021)

Joe O'Reilly: ...approximately €700 million per year to the national income and provides 11,000 jobs. The main areas in Ireland's fishing industry include commercial fishing, processing, marketing, and fish farming. Bord Iascaigh Mhara is Ireland's national fishing body. As the high demand for fish and fish products has put considerable strain on the world's supply, it is important that we...

Seanad: Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Sep 2020)

Joe O'Reilly: ...Leitrim, for example, to plant trees and putting people out of the area. That is not the agenda. There has to be a process and a spatial development plan for forestry. I have a background in farming, given that my family were farmers. On every farm, particularly in the area of Cavan, Longford and Leitrim, there will be 8 or 10 non-arable acres that could not only be planted, provide a...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (18 Sep 2020)

Joe O'Reilly: ...in Article 14, which sets out the provisions relating to the Presidential Commission. I am aware that some of my predecessors as Leas-Chathaoirleach have been called upon, with the Ceann Comhairle and Chief Justice, in this regard. In conclusion, this is a special day for me. Growing up on a small farm in Cavan, I would never have thought that I would one day become Leas-Chathaoirleach...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Joe O'Reilly: ...up the package and make it even more appealing. We have to support our family carers. My good colleague, Senator Lombard, said he was putting the Cathaoirleach on notice that he will be raising farm safety constantly. I put the Cathaoirleach on notice that I will be raising the issue of carers, how we look after our carers and their standing and those other issues constantly as well. I...

Seanad: Climate Action: Statements (5 Nov 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: ...social housing and, if it can be done, the private sector. There is certainly a strong case for continuing with the process of retrofitting. Solar panels are interesting. My neighbour, who is a farmer as well as a private homeowner, recently installed them and anticipates that he will have paid for them in seven years. There will also be a saving in his fuel bill. It would be...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Implications for Ireland of the Withdrawal of the UK from the EU in regard to the Agriculture and Food Sectors: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: ...example, is it the fluctuations in the value of sterling? There is a possibility that those fluctuations might work in our guests' favour in the future. I am interested in the position of small farmers who have off-farm incomes from other work. In the past, it was considered that they did not need support because they had jobs but they are subventing their beef farms and are almost...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Implications for Ireland of the Withdrawal of the UK from the EU in regard to the Agriculture and Food Sectors: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: ...farmer with beef as a major component of his or her income is supplementing it with money from an outside job. Either that or it is not sustainable. These farmers should not be subventing their farming incomes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: ...stocking levels? Certainly in the case of our smaller farmers, were they to have to reduce stocking levels, in many instances it would make the holdings absolutely unviable. Sadly, several small farms are quite challenged without this but were they to have a mandatory reduction of stock that would create huge problems. To what degree can the anaerobic digesters be used as a solution?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Joe O'Reilly: No, I am interested in how the witnesses see them being rolled out but more particularly in their impact on rural Ireland and their capacity to allow small farms remain viable.