Results 41-60 of 90 for going forward speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: This health insurance Bill is about looking at the risk equalisation scheme for all health insurance providers. This is one of the many Bills that have been brought forward so the amount of money paid to the health insurance companies by way of credits can be reduced. These risk credits are paid on the basis of age and gender. Risk needs to be spread so newer entrants coming into the...

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...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...to the cost ratio, the returning of investment, the least impact on residential homes, biodiversity, cultural impact, and archaeology. I am bothered by how much input the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has had, for example, with regard to the housing list in Newcastle West. In Limerick city and county, there are 2,347 on the housing list. There are currently 343...

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Nov 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...times with a total of 1,080 people being treated on trolleys. How can we talk about data protection and the general data protection regulation, GDPR, in these conditions? The only way for the Government to help the nurses is to pay them appropriately. It has spent millions upon millions on hospital buildings but has not invested a penny in the nurses and student nurses. It is a bit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure: Environmental Protection Agency (14 Oct 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...positive note, my meeting with Irish Water yesterday was the most positive meeting I have ever had with it since becoming a Deputy. It was able to give me a roadmap of various projects that were ongoing or had already happened. We have had a boil notice in Fedamore for nearly a year and a half, but Irish Water was able to provide me with a programme of when the works would be finished. ...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...heard for many years was that you will get cancer and other things from smoking. Everything was down to smoking. Maybe you will and maybe you will not. There are many people in this country who got cancer without ever having smoked, or even drank, in their lives. Branding smoking in that way is an issue for me. Telling people that smoking may cause cancer is right. However, people...

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...cars and they are even setting up businesses but they are drawing young people into this and letting them believe it is a life they can grow in. However, it is not a life they can grow in because they are going to be constantly watching their backs. These people are doing fierce damage to youths who are trying to get on with education or a trade. It is very hard for them to look at this...

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?...

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: 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Sep 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...a number of years. I will use County Limerick, which I know best, as an example. We can look at the example of a place where there is planning permission for 100 houses. That project cannot go ahead because of a lack of infrastructure and the fact that things are not in place. I do not have an issue with either Limerick City and County Council or the planners who work there. They...

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]

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jul 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...which was an increase of 527% since 2014. That is a shocking statistic in an unregulated market. When Covid-19 hit, we saw clearly which organisations stood alongside people and kept our SMEs going. These were the organisations that came to people and said they would do what they could to keep them going. What of the banks that were bailed out by a previous Government and the...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Jul 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: While I welcome any funds that have been given to the hospitality sector to date, the support does not go far enough. I say that as a self-employed person and in light of the fiasco during the week relating to inside dining in restaurants and pubs. As I stated yesterday, we are the only European country that does not have indoor dining. Even fully vaccinated people cannot dine inside in a...

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...

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...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...and working off Dublin standards. We will look at why we have a housing crisis and the knock-on effect for the 37% of the people who live in rural areas. The Rural Independent Group brought forward amendments to the 2040 plan to allow people to build in rural areas. The Green Party, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael voted against an amendment that would allow people to build on their...

Traveller Accommodation: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...% over the past 20 years. The majority of Travellers live in rental accommodation, including private and local authority housing stock, with 12% living in either a caravan or mobile home. The goal should be to have no person living in a caravan or mobile home. Some 5% of the Traveller community live in roadside units, which is of huge concern both to themselves and to road users. Do...