Results 361-380 of 2,189 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why there was a decreased allocation for the maintenance of roads across the country in the Budget. [11431/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: On a point of order, I have no problem staying on for a while to do a few votes, but the timeline of 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning means I have to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning to attend the committee. If the Chair is looking for grace on one side, there should be grace on the other side as well. You have no-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: That might be okay with Deputy Higgins if she is not far away-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: There you are.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I said I have no problem with it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have no problem, but Deputy McAuliffe has a problem with extending the meeting.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: So have I.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: My contribution was the same.

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Primary care centres around the country can allow for step-down care. Why has the Government not used primary care centres more often? Who is stopping the primary care centres from being built and why have we not extended the primary care centres that are there at the moment to ensure we can take the pressure off accident and emergency departments? If somebody wants oxygen or wants to have...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider his decision to introduce an increase in fuel excise on 1 April 2024, given the fact that the UK has just announced it will not reintroduce its increase (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12030/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1057. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the extremely wet conditions throughout the country and to consider extending the closing date for spreading lime under the liming scheme as a matter of urgency in the interest of health and safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13097/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1287. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of healthcare workers suffering long Covid whose pay will cease on 31 March (details supplied) will be examined and discussed further; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11895/24]

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have here some captions from my Auntie Eileen's day-to-day diary from 1936. One of the captions said that P. had gone to the creamery - P. was my father - that Ned Barry had called with the paper, that she and Kathy were reading the paper and that Ned Barry had gone out to help in the yard. I am very involved in vintage circles. Recently, I was taking stuff out of a loft. There was a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have grown up with many people from different Traveller accommodation. I can remember long back to when Travellers were coming to different areas and the culture. In some places, where people are living in Traveller accommodation, it is very poor. Some people are in residential areas and others have bought their own houses. However, does the regulation cover where there is an influx of...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will talk straight here. Every Government that has come in here, including Labour of old, said it would build. That party had the Minister with responsibility for housing, Deputy Alan Kelly, at one time and built nothing while it was there. They are full of wind. It is like they are going to huff, they are going to puff and they are going to blow your house down. They are going to huff...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Deputy would want to check the media on that, would he not?

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: There was a media angle in some of the newspapers and Labour's Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin came out with it-----

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Look at the media.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I can get you help now.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: As a person who has been in the building trade all his life, since leaving school early at 15, I have built many houses for people. I was glad to have and to create employment building houses. When I look at the record of the Labour Party and hear its members heckling across the floor, saying this, that and the other, I note the same people said in the media that they would build 1 million...