Results 1-20 of 223 for long speaker:Joe O'Reilly

Seanad: Flooding on Lough Funshinagh: Statements (30 Apr 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: ...Theresa and the Beatty families, they are all related. Councillor Laurence Fallon and his lovely Cavan wife - he showed great judgment in that department - are particular friends of mine for a long time. I know that community well. It covers the townlands of Rahara, Ballagh, Lisfelim, Inchiroe - Senators Dolan and Murphy will correct my pronunciation - Gortree, Carrickbeg, Carrick,...

Seanad: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: ...to traditional methods not only improves efficiency but also ensures timely notifications, which are critical for protecting workers' rights. In this way, people will not be able to hide behind some long-winding snail mail or delaying exercise. The enforcement provisions, particularly in section 7, demonstrate a commitment to accountability. The Bill strengthens employee rights by...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: ...to protect the well-being of our youth in the digital age. The concerns raised in this motion are very similar to the findings in the recent report I did. As you know, Acting Chair, I have been a long-standing member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. I brought forward a report to the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development. I was rapporteur...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Defence Forces (23 Apr 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: ...in First Line Reserve, it is clear we need urgent action to bolster our Reserve. One of the biggest barriers to RDF recruitment is the time-consuming and cumbersome process that prospective recruits must go through. Recruits regularly face extensively long waits for medical and security clearances, discouraging many from considering a career in the Reserve or causing them to lose...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: ...prepared to go with the Senator on that. That is a huge concession to intergovernmental solidarity. I also congratulate Senator Lombard on one of the best speeches delivered in this House for a long time in terms of content, passion and understanding of the issues. The Minister said this has been a shocking, long, depressing period of rain, and it has. It has depressed all of us,...

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Apr 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: ...area and the fact he is very committed to it. His professional background as a doctor can only suggest that not only are the fatalities a horror for families but some people are left with life-long injuries that are a horror, life-changing in a detrimental way and detrimentally changing for whole families. It is a serious matter. My colleague went through this very comprehensively and...

Seanad: Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: ...John, when he was Taoiseach, was keeping up with his ideas, because they ran ahead of those of his staff. He told me that the staff were still trying to factor in and process his ideas when he had long moved onto another one. He said their job was not so much to advise John, as to in some way race after him. He was extraordinary on that level. That is another way I knew him...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: ...House here who, as we all know, are excellent and so helpful to all of us, led by Martin, Bridget and all the staff in the Seanad Office. I also thank the ushers and all the people who help us along. It is a pleasure to wish all of these colleagues a happy Christmas and, I hope, a successful, peaceful and good one. At Christmas, safety is at a premium. It behoves us here to appeal...

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

Joe O'Reilly: ...I salute the Minister for majoring in the whole area of domestic violence and making it very much a personal priority in her Ministry.It is so important that this would happen. Tragically, for so long in previous years it was almost considered to be an in-house, family affair. Wonderfully, we are evolving out of that. I thank the Minister for her leadership in that regard. I could not...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: ...progress on behalf of the Government but it is unacceptable that an adolescent would wait for more than a month for mental health services. In some instances, even waiting for a month is too long but waiting for over a month is unacceptable. It is also unacceptable for there to be any diminution in or lack of quality in the service and for there to be a total reliance on drugs or quick...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: ...of the Palestinian community will not fight and will leave the fighting to Hamas. That will not be the case. As President Biden obliquely admitted, this could become Israel’s Iraq. This could become a long, horrendous conflict where there is loss of life. I think it is a strategy and it has been thought-out. The risk of regional conflict increases with every atrocity. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Current Issues Facing Members of the Defence Forces: Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (3 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: ...defective in a number of ways, is not high profile enough and is not placed enough in schools and so on. I believe it was Commandant Martin Ryan who said here that the best recruitment of all by a long shot is word of mouth, with happy personnel telling friends and family. Nothing substitutes for that. It is the absence of this that is really the problem. It works in every sector when...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: ...xf3;ige was here through the good offices of Senator Currie. He said that if €40 million over three years was devoted to youth services it could reach 83,000 young people and that every euro invested would lead to €22 in long-term benefits. Could the Taoiseach please comment on that as another way of addressing youth poverty? I look forward to those responses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: ...remarks but where he wished the Secretary General well. I wish him great success. Hopefully we will be two more years or near it together yet, working here, and there will be no election for a long time. To move into the issues, I would like to focus on the Reserve Defence Force. Deputy Carthy dealt with some of it at the latter end of his contribution but I have a number of issues...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: ...we need to know where it is at. As a joint venture on every college campus, there should be accommodation, and it should be a lot cheaper than it is. This can be achieved through building using long-term loans. There is money available for this kind of thing. Every campus should have student accommodation. There are many educational reasons for this. What parents are paying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association (11 Jul 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: ...potential in what was the Army barracks, which was closed in a rationalisation a few years ago. That Dún Uí Néill barracks should provide a potential training centre and could be got on a long-term lease. The witnesses might comment on whether the RDF is trying to advance that in any way. There have been recruitment delays in County Cavan, as elsewhere. I gathered,...

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

Joe O'Reilly: ...a pinch of salt. It has to be taken in context. More probing questions are often not asked. However, it poses relevant points as she said. On her basic point about information and the public, the Taoiseach, along with the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, have committed to try to improve how we inform our people and how we speed up the provision of more accommodation. Those practical...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: ...wage and keep it increasing each year. There is a problem here. The Senator is right. I can never understand this. I may be missing something in the rationale for this, but why does it take so long to get our new Irish who want to work in the system - asylum seekers or people who come in from Ukraine and are stuck in hotels - into the workforce in places like the horticultural sector?...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2023)

Joe O'Reilly: ...reform to encourage landlords into the market. One of the great successes in recent years has been the room-to-let scheme. Tax reform must include tax allowances for landlords linked to competitive rents and long-term rental arrangements. A bit of imagination is required. Given the current level of taxation, maintenance and so on, landlords are being driven out of the market....