Results 1,041-1,060 of 2,189 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: The Taoiseach has just said one true thing, which is that the Government is not a business. He has explained that he does not understand business and neither does any of his Cabinet. If he understood business, he would understand how to live in this country. These are the Taoiseach's own records. I see Deputy Niall Collins over there having a good laugh, the same man who turned around and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Exactly, it does not understand business.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Is it?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: So you dictate to everyone else's business.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: You are taxing their families out of existence.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Some 30% more, Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Yes because you are not getting it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Because you cannot hold a candle to me.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: You are not able to.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: As the Head of Government, will the Taoiseach explain to the people why the Government continues to take VAT on goods and services that are at an inflated rate? I will break it down into three simple examples and explain to him how his Government is crippling businesses in the country, putting our householders into poverty and going to drive the country into a recession. The first...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: You can chalk that down again.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: If you ran your business like I run mine, you would not be in business.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: I am talking about tax, Taoiseach; VAT.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Tax.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Tax.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: In my line of work, I am in construction and have been all my life. I look for the supply to rental accommodation. Nobody is building now for rental accommodation in our area. There is no one. In the other sector, very few people are buying houses for rental because they see all the criteria that surround that. I am very fortunate that in our area I know some fantastic landlords, and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: I am sorry to cut across but the statistics should show areas and where the main issues lie within the rental property. There are always people who float but we also have people who have a five-year plan. They come to Dublin or wherever and they have a future plan. I have seen those young couples come to Dublin with their future plan and they want to move back down. There are sectors...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: The social system is there to deal with that. The councils have that responsibility. Ms McCormick talked about the criteria and failing for one or two things but we could have a system that put those under the heading of minor faults and then there would be serious faults as well. With planning permission, there are constant objectors. If we put landlords into grades people could see if...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Is it correct that there is a points system within the rental market so that if a landlord puts energy efficiency into a rental property, they can actually change the rent tariffs? They go on a points system if they, for example, go through the building, put in energy saving bulbs and do small, minor things. People who are involved in managing rentals have told me about a points system...