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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Why does the Government not?

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is because the Government is the same thing over and over again. Three years ago, a house cost €120 per sq. ft and the Government took 13.% on top of that which was €16,200. Today, it costs €200 per sq. ft and the Government takes €27,000. That is for every 1,000 sq. ft of a house from people who are working and paying for their own houses. That is what the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The facts are there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: It must be an election.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Where are they?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: In the city.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is 42 years later.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: False promises.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Same here.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The reason I got into politics - I have been a building contractor all my life and I am a block layer by trade - is that I want to help build for the future. I want to use my experience. I do not build for local authorities. I have always had our own jobs to do. For 40 or 50 years, we have been promised infrastructure. The Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, who is sitting behind...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The junior and now the senior since the Taoiseach stepped down. Only for that, there would-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Stepped up or stepped down, whichever.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Michael Collins was born close to Clonakilty.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: No. Where Fine Gael was born was close to Clonakilty. He was born to the son of a farmer. Since it has come into government, for decades, Fine Gael has done nothing but close down farms around this country. We then go to Eamon de Valera, who was born in New York and raised in Bruree, County Limerick, and was for Fianna Fáil. Again, we look across the Governments over decades slowly...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Wind Energy Generation (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 785. To ask the Minister for Health the number of wind farm noise complaints for counties Mayo, Offaly and Tipperary, categorised by wind farm name, number of complaints, number of complaints to report sleep disturbance and number of complaints to report any other health complaint, for each year 2013 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43004/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Wind Energy Generation (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 786. To ask the Minister for Health the number of case files pertaining to wind turbine shadow flicker for counties Mayo, Offaly and Tipperary, categorised by wind farm name, for each year 2013 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43005/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 822. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE issued a scoping report for several planning applications (date issued) with confirmation if a pre-planning scoping meeting was held (date of meeting), in tabular form. [43170/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 823. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the HSE's receipt of planning applications (date received) (details supplied) and confirmation if the HSE made a submission to the statutory planning authority (date submitted), in tabular form. [43171/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Safety (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 824. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the most recent wind energy SID planning application received to the environmental health service for Galway and Clare. [43172/24]

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Why does the Government get it wrong all the time? I have a business background and have been self-employed nearly all my life. I have education of life and of business because I am in business. Why does the Cabinet get it wrong all the time? The Government likes percentage models. How many in the Cabinet are businesspeople or come from the farming or community sector where they have...