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Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Businesses trying to build an enterprise on green energy are having obstacles put in their way. I understand that it is proposed in a Bill on Committee Stage to introduce planning regulations that will allow 60 kW of solar panel power generation. That is not sustainable for any business because any business needs 100 kW of solar panel power. Any house that was built in the 1980s and 1990s...

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Commission of Investigation Report: Statements (14 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Having looked at this report, I can see where the financial crash started. I can see an Ireland that was not about the ordinary person in the street who was not able to pay back a mortgage. It was about total corruption during a time when people had to emigrate, when people lost their homes and when many people lost their lives worrying about repaying loans. I remember clearly someone...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (14 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants for social housing in County Limerick to date in 2022, by district in tabular form; the number of social housing units completed in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38931/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: School Transport (14 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are expected with schools that provide a private bus service in order that the charges to parents will also be waived; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38933/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the means for families in order that they can obtain the back-to-school allowance, owing to the escalating cost-of-living which many working families are dealing with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38932/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (14 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 702. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances available in the UL Hospitals Group on a daily basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38930/22]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, along with other colleagues who are present. The manner in which these amendments have been brought before us at such short notice, with the use of the guillotine procedure, is another insight into the state of the Government. I am involved in a lot of planning in County Limerick. The granting of...

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank Raise the Roof for its work, but before you can do any work on raising the roof you have to have infrastructure. I have been in construction all my life and I know the importance of having infrastructure in an area. I will use the example of Limerick and the statistics I have. For 38 years Askeaton has been waiting for the Government, the previous Government and the governments...

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: He did not even speak to me this morning. For the record, he ran out of here today when I was speaking.

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Is that all the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, can do? Laugh and giggle?

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: They are not personal attacks.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The city-based Cabinet has taken €6 billion from people in this country and there are no alternatives. They are backed up by career politicians from the county. An 18-year-old girl, Jessica Sheedy, died in University Hospital Limerick because management did not do due diligence and put many more people at risk. The Minister was in the hospital and found nothing wrong. We were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that children who attend an independent, co-educational, multi-denominational primary school will be discriminated against when it comes to a home tuition service as part of the July Provision (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37748/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: To assist Deputy Gould with the issue of permission for solar farms. If farmers, for example, with a 100 acre holding release more than 49% of their land holding, they lose their single farm payment. What happens as a result is that three or four farmers come together. To make it viable to build a solar farm, you need between 180 acres and 200 acres with a high-power line. Often, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is no problem at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is it. I thank the committee for all the work it has done. Planning and environmental issues are something I am interested in as I have been in construction all my life. My question is on solar farms. Up to what kilowatt level would the Department consider a small solar farm development to be exempt from planning? The reason I ask is following Covid and the high rise in energy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Do hotels come into that category?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am sorry to cut across Ms Graham, but I want to get this right. The question is if hotels and other such areas are included. Most solar farms at the moment are being put in fields because they are not recommended to go on roofs. Many of the roof designs are not capable of accommodating solar panels because of the wind that could be trapped which would cause vibrations. They are great...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: My other question is on the planning framework from an environmental point of view for County Limerick. From the details the Department has at the moment, it probably has a footprint map of Ireland as a whole. It can see the weak areas that do not have infrastructure and that are being taken out of the local area plans because of lack of infrastructure for forward planning. In counties...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank Ms Graham.