Speaking in the Seanad today on the Affordable Housing Bill 2021 Green Party Senator Pauline O’Reilly said that she welcomed the Bill as it includes all of the elements that NESC has been flagging such as “cost rental, beefing up the LDA so that it can really deliver for us,…
Speaking today Green Party Senator Pauline O’Reilly said that she “welcomes the investment for biodiversity projects at local level”. She went on to say “putting biodiversity to the top of the agenda is key for us in government. Well done to all volunteers for the work you have continued to…
Green Party Senator Pauline O'Reilly speaking at today's Oireachtas Climate Committee examining biodiversity said she “sometimes wonders what different policies would have been put in place if birds could vote”. "When we look down the list of birds that have moved from Green to Amber, and Amber to Red on…
The menopause was once again raised in the Seanad today. Green Party Senator Pauline O’Reilly stated that “since I spoke about this issue last Tuesday, little did I know that this issue was going to dominate the airwaves for almost another week”. O’Reilly stated “I think that is really welcome,…
Speaking today in the Seanad Green Party Senator Pauline O’Reilly once again raised the issue of inequality within the healthcare system around the country. O’Reilly stated “I’m practically tearing my hair out, as I know Senator Chambers is as well, around the inequality in our healthcare services around the country. …
Speaking today in the Seanad Green Party Senator Pauline O’Reilly called for better understanding of the menopause and for more open discussions on the subject within the Seanad. O’Reilly stated “I often stand up here and speak about breastfeeding, about periods about different stages of women’s lives …. There’s a…
Speaking in the Seanad today Green Party Senator Pauline O’Reilly said “I’m kind of stunned that Senator Mullen is continuing to say that we have to have a conversation that is fifty fifty. Actually, the Irish people have already voted on this issue and we have abortion in this country,…
Speaking in the Seanad today Green Party Senator Pauline O’Reilly “that for the first time sixteen year olds in Wales got the opportunity to vote this week, and again something that we in the Green Party have been looking at and calling for for a long time. O’Reilly went on…
Speaking today at Order of Business in the Seanad Senator O’Reilly stated that “I’m particularly frustrated at that postcode lottery … the fact that in Galway partners are allowed in for one hour a day, once the baby is born. In the rest of the North West there is no visiting…
On Tuesday the Joint Committee on Key issues affecting the Traveller Community met to discuss the findings of the report: Travellers in the mainsteam Labour Market: Situation, Experience and Identity. The Committee heard from Galway success Bounce Back Recycling who employ twelve Travellers, have recycled 50,000 mattresses at their waste…