Results 1-20 of 89 for going forward speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister is welcome to Limerick to see the houses we have issues with. I have a question that might help the Minister going forward. Have the quarries found to have had pyrite in their blocks stopped making blocks? If so, how long ago did they stop? This report was done in 2012 so the quarries knew there was an issue at that time. Have those quarries been making blocks since then?...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (9 Sep 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position regarding the definite answers on grant aid for dairy investments going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41915/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...seek help. It has often happened that two or three weeks have passed before someone has been able to meet with them. In different counties, MABS is under different pressures. This is where I am going with my question. Mr. Lemass mentioned that only seven tenants have been referred to MABS. I refer people to MABS on a weekly basis, and it could take two or three weeks for them to get a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...has a footprint map of Ireland as a whole. It can see the weak areas that do not have infrastructure and that are being taken out of the local area plans because of lack of infrastructure for forward planning. In counties like Limerick, we are looking at it from the point of view that many areas do not have a proper adequate sewerage system. A recent report showed that the biggest...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (15 Jul 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is great to see €500 million being used for environmentally friendly projects. I note, however, that nothing has gone to agriculture, which is always being wrongly blamed as the cause of emissions in Ireland. Some €8.5 million is being provided for a gas project; €15 million is going to Irish Rail to reduce the number of diesel engines; €20 million is going to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: When will Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party stop discriminating against people in County Limerick? We brought forward an amendment to the Project Ireland 2040 plan and the Government voted against it. The Government is stopping people building in towns, villages and rural areas because of a lack of investment. All of the investment to upgrade infrastructure is going into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Local Government (Directly Elected Mayor with Executive Functions in Limerick City and County) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: Yes, I thank the Chairman. I did not give the witnesses much of an opportunity to answer on the previous occasion so I am going to make this brief to give them all a minute each if I can. A system that was being used in the local authority was under the general municipal allocation system. It ensured each individual district within the city and county received funding for improvements...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...and businesses and tell them that if the level 5 restrictions hold the numbers to a certain level, they would then be allowed to open. Then the hotels could gauge it themselves and prepare going forward. However, everything is a secret and the Government expects it can turn a switch and everything will be rosy and things will happen straight away. The Taoiseach had the mechanism within...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: The public view at the moment is that we are going downhill at 100 mph while the Taoiseach is driving the bus. The public sees the Tánaiste as trying to make the bus skid and the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, asleep in the back. That is what the public is looking at. I spoke already about spin and the rewards that were put out for Sinn Féin Deputies. Sinn Féin is only...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: If the Ceann Comhairle will indulge me for 30 seconds, I want to go on the record of the Dáil with regard to the previous debate. I had asked the Minister for Health to answer a question and we left him one and a half minutes in which to answer the question. The Minister sat in the chair with his head down. When he got up to answer my question, he started talking to another Deputy,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Local Government (Directly Elected Mayor with Executive Functions in Limerick City and County) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...and, second, when we had the vote on a mayor for Limerick city and county. The result was that the city voted for it and the county voted against it. It is a cultural change. Everything going forward must be a positive change for Limerick. The people of Limerick had a democratic vote and that should be respected, and we should move forward from there. Equally, there is history within...

Higher Education Investment and Costs: Statements (2 Jun 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...accommodation is ideal because it is monitored 24 hours a day and there is security and support. However, there must be joined-up thinking in all Departments for universities such as UL to move forward. There must be a multi-agency approach to funding to tackle the issue, such as having additional modular accommodation, which is relatively less expensive. Putting the jigsaw together...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Last night we debated an important Bill on patient safety. How can we have a good hospital system if the HSE investigates itself? Why can we not have an independent body to investigate serious complaints against hospitals like University Hospital Limerick? Some 70 health professionals - the Tánaiste is also a health professional - came forward on Q-Pulse to report incidents. Some 140...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Just to clarify, and this should go back to the petitioner, the way forward is through the Seanad. Send in the letters to everyone in the Seanad. On the basis that if the Government falls, this falls with it, we have to learn from mistakes. We saw what happened with the two most recent referendums that went to the country, where the result came back with a no vote to both. We have seen...

Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...dwellings and hotels. Throughout the country, the hotel industry showed resilience and the reopening was phenomenal. What the hotels did for staycation holiday makers was unbelievable. How does the Government reward them? It does so with more restrictions. Everyone had their staycations and the media looked at it and showed people throughout the country having staycations and massive...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I look forward to the investment in Limerick but, as I said, it is like a "once upon a time" story. The Minister is talking about everything but 73% of towns and villages have no infrastructure, sewerage or adequate water supplies while €4.5 billion is spent in Dublin. There are 25 other counties in the Republic of Ireland and the Government is spending billions in Dublin and...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...after the vulnerable people who need to be looked after. There should be a proper democratic debate in respect of all sectors. The parties there should come to a position where they actually look forward to representing all the people of the North, no matter their religious background or the country from which they come. They should all be looked after in a proper manner. The parties...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Heritage Council: Chairperson Designate (23 Nov 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...projects. If we have to rebuild our old stock, they must have the supports they need. If somebody falls ill in their job, there is no one there to take on the project, so it sits still and does not go forward. I love old buildings and I want to protect them but I have a common sense side to me as well. I look at some places that are falling down. The cost of rebuilding certain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the witnesses. Following up the earlier comments I made, I am looking forward to hearing directly from them about the service agreement for Croom. A survey was done in 2019 of the waterways and I will use Limerick as an example. It showed the biggest polluters in Limerick are the local authorities. Enforcement notices have been served on people by the local authorities. They...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...Taoiseach is saying is that Jessica Sheedy will not have died in vain and that somebody else's life will be saved. However, that was 2018. Now, we are talking about Aoife Johnston. Where are we going? There has to be accountability within the hospital system. The other thing the Government has to look at is how much has been spent on legal fees fighting these cases and more over stuff...