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Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Alternatives? There are none.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Give me an alternative and I will agree with the Minister. There are no alternatives.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Government's answer is to take €10 in every €17 in tax from the people of Ireland. The cost of building materials has gone up by 40%. That dilutes the Minister's retrofit grant, which is now non-existent, at €23,500. It is gone with the price increases. People cannot afford to do what the Minister wants them to do. The weekly shop for two adults and two children...

Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have been a building contractor all of my life and I have always been in the buildings, which has given me the life I have had, working with others to build homes for people for the future. When I was in the county council I saw first-hand how the Government put in regulation after regulation to stop people building houses in rural areas. The charge for any house built in rural areas...

Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I forgive the Deputy.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will put it in terms of the country.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister of State, Deputy Donovan, is a fellow Limerick man. Are the people of Europe aware that we cannot move away from fossil fuels because we have no alternatives? The Minister was elected by the people of County Limerick, who he represents, including pig farmers, workers in small industries and truckers. Everyone who has elected the Minister of State has asked him to have a voice,...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will not. I said earlier that the Minister of State is a fellow Limerick man. This is where I want his help. The pig farmers were here last week. The introduction of the subsidies for fuel for heavy goods vehicles is only available to people who hold road haulier licences. That counts out the quarries that own vehicles and supply their own goods. It takes out the pig industry that...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Irish parents pay the highest childcare costs in Europe, according to IBEC. In fact, they pay three times more than those in any other European country. Fair play to the Government. The Minister can make a difference today. Outside in the rural areas people must now travel further to get childcare spots. What does his Government do? It takes the extra tax on the fuel increase. People...

European Union Regulation: Motion (5 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The joint investigation teams are set up for specific criminal investigations between two or more countries within the EU but can also involve countries outside the Union. The joint investigation teams have technical difficulties that prevent them from doing their proper investigation work. They need to make the system secure, particularly for large files. They need to be able to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have been in construction all my life. When I was elected to the county council I brought up the carbon footprint for county councils when they are doing their works for the year and budgeting their works for the year. They ask people their carbon footprint when they are building a house, yet our government bodies do not look at it when they are doing the budgets for the roads. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: How can we join the dots between the agencies such that they will all sing off the same hymn sheet and they will not say a given issue is some other agency's responsibility?

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I compliment the agencies and the volunteers for the work they have done for the Ukrainian people to support women and children who are refugees coming into Ireland. Ireland is the best country in the world. When the chips are down on their own side from the lack of care of their own Government in the extra taxes it is putting on them, they still welcome people into their homes no matter...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are expected to implement the return of mask wearing in schools due to the increase of the virus in the community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17094/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 189. To ask the Minister for Health if discussions are expected with the HSE to review the criteria required to access a medical card due to the increase in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17093/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the waiting times that women are experiencing in University Hospital Limerick for a gynaecology appointment after being given an irregular cervical smear test result (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17095/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Drug Dealing (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister says in Justice Plan 2022 that she wants to make a real difference in people's lives. More gardaí on the beat would make a real difference in rural communities. Does the Minister realise the Garda station in Newcastle West closed down three years ago to move to a temporary station? The divisional headquarters takes in the greater proportion of County Limerick, but the new...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Drug Dealing (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Some 596 gardaí were allocated to Limerick. Of those, 92 were superintendents, detectives and sergeants. There are 7,596 uniformed gardaí in the country out of 8,539, if one removes the detectives from that. Will the Minister explain why Dublin, with a population of 1.4 million, takes 44% of the new recruits? When there is a population of more than 5 million in Ireland, that is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Drug Dealing (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the latest information available to her Department confirms that drug use throughout the State is at an all-time high; the steps being taken by her Department to address the deepening crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16675/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Drug Dealing (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The latest information available to the Minister's Department confirms that drug use throughout the State is at an all-time high. What steps are being taken by the Department to address the deepening crisis, and will the Minister make a statement on the matter? I am shocked to see the extent of the use of drugs in Ireland in all sectors of communities, young, old, male and female. There...