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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I want a reward for somebody who works.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: In 2020, people got 16.5 gallons of fuel for €100. Today, that same 16.5 gallons of fuel costs €139.42. In 2020, per €100 of fuel, the Government took €45 in tax on diesel and €50 in tax on petrol. Today, the Government is taking €62.74 in tax on diesel and €69.71 in tax on petrol. For a gallon of fuel, which is the same product we are...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I spoke in the Chamber last week. The Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, was present. We discussed student accommodation and the fact that people have to rent properties for more than 12 months. The Minister of State said that there would be legislation in this regard. However, the legislation before us relates to student accommodation, not private dwellings. My son goes to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (9 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to differences in the acceptable wind turbine noise levels as per guidelines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29644/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (9 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm plans, and timeline, to regulate operating wind farms (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29646/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (9 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government has confirmed that work on the revised wind energy development guidelines is near completion, expert guidance having been tendered and engaged to assess an acceptable level of noise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29647/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (9 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm that the revised WEDGs have adequately assessed the potential impact of wind turbine noise on human health (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29648/24]

Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I acknowledge the work the Minister has been doing and the commitments she has given on domestic violence and refuges for women who have suffered domestic violence. At Christmas, I visited ADAPT House in Limerick. My office staff and I go around during the Christmas season trying to help people in various areas – not only women who have suffered domestic violence, but also their...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank Natasha O'Brien for coming here today. After what happened to her, the first phone call I got about it was from a man, Evan, who said he had spent time with Natasha in Lourdes on their school trip, where they went out to help people with disabilities around Lourdes. He said that she is a lovely girl and that he was absolutely disgusted by what happened to her. What followed on from...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: There are great pressures being put on people who have children in third level education needing accommodation. It has come to my attention that students who were previously paying for accommodation for the college year, which is approximately nine months, are now being forced to keep their accommodation for the whole 12 months. College students who wanted to earn a few euro for the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Minister of State. However, we must make sure it is done sooner rather than later. The arrangements must be in place in time for the next college year. We do not want this happening to students. They work long and hard when they are in college. They should not have to pay for their accommodation for 12 months of the year. It is one thing for the legislation to be introduced...

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome anything that will help tackle knife crime and other forms of armed crime. I welcome the appointment of more judges. I also welcome that gardaí, prison officers and members of the Defence Forces can stay on for an extra two years to 62 years of age. However, if we cannot keep them until they are 60 anyway, it begs the question of what is wrong. Some 98% of rank-and-file...

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the teachers, SNAs, cleaners, communities, caretakers, parents and schoolchildren who go above and beyond to make sure their schools stay open. The work they do outside of what is funded by Government goes above and beyond. Look at what smaller schools have to do. They do not get the same funding as schools with more than 100 students. There are criteria whereby smaller schools -...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I echo the sentiments of Deputy Michael Healy-Rae. Sinn Féin is back here again with an election looming. After the last election, it realised the people of Ireland do not want it because again it is changing its stories over and over again after it voted for carbon tax. A person will get a grant for up to €2,100 for solar panels but in the last three years, the cost of the...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: There must be an election looming again as Sinn Féin has done another U-turn. It now states it no longer wants open borders. It now wants to look at things differently. I am working with many nationalities in this country and always have done so. It is harder now to get into the country with paperwork than it is without paperwork in certain cases. I refer to people who come with...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: At the outset, I want to address the lack of policing in this country. In the interim, would it not be possible for gardaí who have retired and who have left the Garda to be brought back on a part-time basis for a certain number of hours so that it would not interfere with their retirement packages? This would mean that specialists, who were trained in the field, could deal with...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 34. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if extra funding can be provided by the Government for communities fundraising for the provision of a childcare after-school facility in their local area, due to the escalating cost of living people are faced with; and if he is aware that these facilities are a vital part of the community and school, and that...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am from a farming background and all my family, and generations before me, were farmers. What the nature restoration law is doing to farmers, especially small farmers, is making bad land very expensive. If a farmer is farming every piece of a small landholding, with all the laws that are there whereby farmers need to have certain lands for biodiversity and everything else that comes with...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have been in the construction business all my life. Is the Government facilitating a one-stop shop cartel? Will the Minister of State clarify why the registered independent BER assessors are not permitted to provide the home energy assessment required to apply for a loan under the home energy upgrade loan scheme as the energy assessment can only be conducted by an SEAI-registered one-stop...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: What value is given to life? If recognising Palestine saves one life, is it not worth it? History is a funny thing when you look at it one way. When you look back it is something that is taken for granted. When Hitler was on his reign, the media said that humanity would never see something like this again. Then we had Rwanda when the Hutus and the Tutsis slaughtered one another and...