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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (24 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Passport express is very misleading because it takes two months. Why market it as an express service? When additional information is required, why does an applicant need to go back to day one? The express system takes two months. If further clarification is needed, the applicant must go back to day one and has another two months to wait. The time runs on. It is supposed to be an express...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (24 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Deputies can fast-track problem passports in certain circumstances (details supplied). [15468/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (24 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I offer my condolences to our ambassador, Jim Kelly's wife and daughter, Orla and Ciara. I commend the Department of Foreign Affairs on the work it is doing in Ukraine. My question relates to fast-tracking problem passport applications. There are genuine circumstances in which non-standard applications are facing long delays, which are causing stress and anxiety.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (24 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: My office is dealing with a great many passport-related queries every week and is finding it more and more frustrating. I acknowledge that the online system works well for straightforward renewals. It is with the type of application I deal with that there are issues. The urgent passport number will only tell us what we already know. If you apply for a passport in an emergency, the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (24 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 165. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will take steps to accelerate the slow and uncertain process of issuing permits to skilled European Union nationals and non-European Union nationals particularly in the hospitality and agriculture sectors. [15469/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (24 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the reason that there are huge delays in obtaining work permits for skilled European Union nationals and non-European Union nationals; and if this issue has been raised with him by his Ministerial colleagues. [15499/22]

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome any Bill that brings regulation to practices in Ireland for its citizens. I understand that the number of treatment cycles in 2020 was 9,878 and that no particular treatment procedures have been in place. As such, I welcome the clarity that the Bill will bring. I also understand that the Government is planning to put in place a model of care for infertility treatment. The Bill...

Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome the Bill brought forward by the Social Democrats. Sadly, sex for rent appears to be on the doorstep of both urban and rural communities throughout Ireland although, thankfully, it is not very widespread at the moment. I was shocked to read a story of such a case in Limerick, which I thank the Limerick Postfor exposing. This is probably the darkest side of homelessness, where...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. At the same time, I would like to point out that last October when the price increase in fuel crisis was here, I asked Sinn Féin to help me and the Rural Independent Group to highlight the energy costs and fuel costs. It took Sinn Féin until March to finally realise that there was a crisis, although I could see it last...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: In October 2021, the Rural Independent Group brought to the attention of the Government and the Opposition the fact that Ireland had been given a toolbox by the EU to reduce the burden on people due to the high cost of energy. What did the Government do? It raised taxes instead of easing them for people in this country. I see Deputy Leddin is leaving the Chamber. He talked about Putin....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fuel Prices (22 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 723. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the poverty students are experiencing due to the increase in fuel cost given that many students drive to college due to the lack of bus services in rural areas and the lack of accommodation available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14690/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1010. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of specialists in Huntington’s disease services in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14689/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1011. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the waiting time persons in Limerick are experiencing for cataract operations in University Hospital Limerick forcing them to travel to the north of Ireland for this procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14691/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is for any one of the team who can help me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I understand it from that point of view but what about new builds? They allow me to get extra people into my towns and villages so I can create businesses that make the towns sustainable and that then gives me a case to ask for infrastructure like bus transport services. Three of the towns are at max capacity for sewerage. Askeaton is waiting 37 years for an update to its sewerage system....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: All the more reason for them to send money this way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: They will be welcome home.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (22 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome all the representatives and thank them for the work they do. I will circle in on Housing for All and I will look at all the different agencies that have been mentioned. If we focus on the LDA, the LDA does nothing for me in the area I represent because all its funding is based in the cities. The funding is not based in the county because of infrastructural issues we have in...