Results 921-940 of 2,189 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: What is the appetite in Europe to regulate the standing charges that appear on utility bills? Will the windfall solidarity tax bring down the cost of energy for the 2.1 million domestic electricity customers in Ireland or is it just another tax? Deputy Flaherty referred to mobile wind turbines. It states on Electric Ireland bills that 64% of the electricity is from renewable energy, yet...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this motion. There should be no more time wasted. The people of the mother and baby homes have suffered enough. It is time the redress scheme was introduced in recognition of what happened there. I will tell the House a story. I visited a person - I will not say where - because I knew that this person was alone. The individual was a survivor...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: These are facts here now. Airtricity paid €115 million to its parent company in the UK last year, while its bills went up by €600 over the year. Electric Ireland, which has 1.2 million electricity customers, is 95% owned by the State. Its electricity bills went up by €466 over the year, with five price increases in succession. Guess what? The Government does not...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Last week I mentioned in the Dáil that we may not have places for tourists in this country next year. Figures from Fáilte Ireland for 2019 show international and Irish tourist yielded an estimated €9.5 billion. Tourism gives employment to 270,000 people. The industry must be supported and protected. A total of 70% of these jobs are outside Dublin. Tourism is a huge...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 767. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to recruit more radiotherapy nurses in hospitals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51515/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for the work they are doing. Ms Doherty said that 4,823 people are on the housing list. Is that for Cork city and county?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: From the point of an LDA, how much funding is there for people within the county, for delivery of houses for counties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: There are plenty of business people in Cork who want to provide accommodation for their staff, but they have been brought under the rule that they need to have a certain amount of social housing. If they are building a block of apartments for staff, they still need to build social housing units. If a person wanted to build 20 units for staff, those staff who otherwise would be on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is still a housing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: If a business person in Cork city approached the council with a proposal to build housing for their staff, would the council support it? Would it not help to reduce its housing list?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Assumption or not, I am asking Ms Doherty if a person approached the council and was in a position to build 20 apartments for the staff of their business which supports the local economy and the local area, would she be in favour of that or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Ms Doherty could not facilitate it even if someone could put apartments up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: If there was a chance that they might look to change the law of the land under exceptional circumstances because we are in a housing crisis, would Ms Doherty support it then? Would she support it if the law was changed to help the council's process of delivering houses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: What I am asking is if it was a proposal-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is something we will bring up, but would it not help us if we had the support of Cork City Council and Galway City Council and from people in their areas? Given that we are discussing the laws of planning at the moment if business people were in a position to build apartments for their staff, would it be something you would support?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: No, Ms Doherty can stay where she is and I am coming from the right county as well. The witnesses here today cover the delivery of properties Cork city and Galway city. One of the witnesses from Cork City Council said that Cork has 29 derelict sites. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: How many of them are listed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: How many of the properties Cork City Council has acquired are flood zones A and B?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I understand they are all under flood zones because Cork city is down in a hole. How many of the derelict sites the council has are under flood zone A or B?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Throughout the country we have a problem with flooding and many of the properties Cork City Council has acquired under CPO are within a flood plain. There is an issue with the accuracy of the flood plain maps at the moment. I had one myself this morning in Limerick where they actually had put in properties on a flood plain. We went away and we got it researched and found out that the maps...