Results 1,061-1,080 of 2,189 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Ms McCormick stated it would involve an investment of €30,000 or €40,000. An investment like that is nothing when one considers the inflationary cost of insulation and all the rest of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: It is a no-brainer. If there was a tax refund-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Pre-63 properties or properties over a shop, for example, come under the new fire regulations and everything else. One may have a listed building and not be able to touch it, so one cannot bring it up to standard in terms of fire regulations in order to make it available for rent. There are many properties in towns and villages across Ireland that are caught up in the listed section and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: A normal company in a retail business is subject to 12%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: In the rental market, it is 25% tax.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Every day is a learning day. What I have learned today is that in order to incentivise people to bring properties up to a good standard, the taxation system for retrofitting needs to change. An incentive should be put in place in order that people will invest in properties that are of a poor standard and bring them up to a good standard. Another problem is that many landlords in areas...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Sorry, I want to let Ms O'Reilly in. There is no incentive for the landlord to do that work.
- Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Irish Water was allocated a fund for the greater Dublin area drainage project of €410 million and €294 million for the water supply project. The funding for these two projects was ring-fenced for the duration of Irish Water's third revenue control period, RC3, although the company could not access the fund for diversion of projects. Irish Water is now proposing that the...
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: What about Lanesborough?
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: The ESB bill is going to be €600,000 to €2.5 million for one Limerick company, one company.
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Ah, look.
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: A barrel of oil is cheaper now.
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: A barrel of oil is cheaper now than it was a year ago.
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Say that to the Irish people.
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Look after Ireland like you are meant to look after it. You are elected in Ireland.
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: The cracks are showing, are they not? I see the Minister's party colleagues are on radio saying that they believe the peat plants should be opened up again to provide power for the people who put them here to protect them. We all want to protect the environment and the universe but we put our people first and we work for the future. What the Minister has done to the people of Ireland is...
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: For the record, the last time I brought up that comment when the Ceann Comhairle and everyone else was here, not one person pulled me for that comment. That will tell the Leas-Cheann Comhairle what it means.
- An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: I have been in construction all my life. In helping people with planning permissions in areas such as one-off houses and businesses across the board, the biggest thing we must deal with to help people put a roof over their heads is An Bord Pleanála. I have a serious concern that even with the planning process in place, people, no matter where they are in the country, can pay €20...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of excise tax collected in each quarter of 2020 and 2021 and for the first half of 2022, in tabular form. [45298/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: 241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the upset that the bus waiver has caused families given that some students are without a service due to the fact that there are no buses available to serve the routes, yet tickets have been issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45299/22]