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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: The reason we are looking at the transport network is for such situations as if you had large machinery or anything that is to come into the country. If it came in in four parts or whatever, it comes in containers and is assembled here. If a big unit was coming on a ship or whatever way it is coming into the country, it is a big unit. If it is broken into smaller units, you can fit much...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I would like to put on the record before we conclude this meeting that I thank the witnesses for answering these sorts of questions which were not on the invitation letter and how they explained them excellently. They did not have to but I welcome all their answers today. It was informative to everyone. They did not have to do it. I thank them for that. That concludes the session. I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will give Mr. Madouros half a minute to come back on that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: This was not within the remit of those coming in today.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will let the witnesses answer.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 222. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the current energy policy narrative that Ireland will become a significant exporter of renewable electricity, particularly wind energy, in view of recent Eurostat figures showing that Ireland was a net importer of electricity by over 3,000 GWh in 2023 and over 5,000 GWh in 2024, while electricity...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Prices (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 223. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has undertaken any cost benefit or an electricity price impact analysis regarding the warning raised by EirGrid that very significant levels of renewable power will need to be spilled under the current Climate Action Plan targets (details supplied); if, under the current Renewable Electricity Support...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Planning Issues (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 845. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the following details with respect to the HSE and four planning appeals submitted to An Bord Pleanála (details supplied) if the HSE received a notification of the planning appeal; if so, the date of notification and the body that issued the notification; whether the HSE made a submission to the appeal; and; if so, the date of any...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am not against wind farms or biodigesters but I am for health guidelines being adhered to. It has been shown in the documentation I have here, released under access to information on the environment regulations, that in November 2021 and April 2022 the then Minister, former Deputy Eamon Ryan, and the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, agreed to abandon the 2017 preferred draft approach to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. We have had guidelines since 2006. The Tánaiste is right; it has taken 12 years where we are looking at guidelines. Every time there is a change of Government, it is guidelines, guidelines, guidelines. If there are guidelines put in place for wind turbines in this country, at least they can be put up straight away. You will not have High...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Now for round two.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Garda Tom Flavin was suspended from An Garda Síochána in 2018. He has been cleared of all 22 charges. It took the legal system seven years for a Garda investigation. He has now been reinstated. He had his sergeant exam done before he was suspended. Seven years were lost to a Garda investigation and others are ongoing. How long does it take for the Garda to investigate itself?...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the speakers who spoke in support of this motion. However, I saw the reply from the Minister and the 28 proposals amending what we proposed. They are a copy and paste. That does not give me any encouragement that the Minister is listening. What does Independent Ireland have that the Government and Department do not have? We have common sense. The Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am a believer. I grew up believing there are Thirty-two Counties in Ireland, not Twenty-Six Counties. We are the island of Ireland. Call me old school; that is the way I was brought up. People from the North of Ireland can run for President but would not be able to vote for themselves. They are from Ireland. It is the island of Ireland. That is the bottom line. How many people who...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: The report by "RTÉ Investigates" makes me sick to my stomach that this could happen. I look at the nursing homes around Limerick and other nursing homes I have visited. Through social events that we do, such as vintage events, we recreate lives of people who are in the nursing homes. We bring in some of the older stuff in to them and see what the nursing homes do. I have been at a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (24 Jun 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I ask all members to put their mobile phones on silent mode. Before we begin, I wish to explain to witnesses some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the House as regards reference you may make to other persons in your evidence. You are protected under absolute privilege in respect of the presentation you make to the committee. This means that you have an absolute...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (24 Jun 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: On behalf of the committee, I am delighted to welcome you as Leas-Chathaoirleach. I wish you the very best of luck with it. It is a privilege to be either a Cathaoirleach or a Leas-Chathaoirleach of a committee. It is a responsibility that we have and I look forward to working with you.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Thank you, Minister. I now invite the Minister, Deputy Chambers, to make his opening statement.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: In that context-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: The oversight I am talking about is already in place. The local authorities were doing this in the first place. Engineering services in local authorities can oversee the developer-led projects within their own counties. I am talking about smaller developments where existing systems can be upgraded and then give them back to Uisce Éireann with the upgraded systems in place. We have to...