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Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: We are dealing with Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach. One of Ireland's legacy issues that I would be concerned about is trade between our country and the UK. Trade between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has surged ahead. The latest official trade figures show that exports of goods from the Republic to the North increased by almost €2.6 billion between...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The following is through the eyes of a teenager: Being without broadband is like being without your voice in today's world. [That was said to me by a teenager recently.] Like it, love it, hate it. It is our window to the world of work, of education, of health, of leisure and just general family catch-up. Unfortunately, this highlights again the big urban-rural divide. We have parts...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Chairman and the witnesses. My background is that I am in construction. I work on the restoration of listed buildings in certain cases. The most recent building I worked on was Kilmallock Credit Union at the former An Post site in Kilmallock. It was a two-year project to return it to a workable status so it could be used within the community. I employ the lad with the JCB...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Using Kilmallock as an example, some parts of Kilmallock are 14th century, depending on which section of the town one looks at. The older part of the town is 14th century and up to the 1700s or more. My job as a public representative is to get people back into the towns and villages even if there are historical monuments. Some of these historical monument designations are now being brought...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Who will answer those questions for us then? For example, will the local authority have the go-to person to answer those questions if a planning application calls for building within a historical monument? Is it up to the local authority? Who will be the go-to person for me in Limerick so I can pick up the phone to call the local authority? Who will be responsible? Will I be going to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Will a person answer that? Will there be a department or somebody who would answer queries? It is grand going online but who would be the definition of that when a person goes online and has a small concern that cannot be answered online?

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Construction Industry Register Ireland is known as the CIRI. As a builder, I welcome this legislation and the assurance it will give to the consumer. However, if this is being introduced to avoid a mica or a pyrite scandal again, I have to question it as there was probably nothing unlawful done by the builders. It was a fault with products. Does this legislation cover the building...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: With regard to mental health services in Limerick, if the Minister of State looks it up online, she will see that the Limerick CAMHS is open from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. Mental health issues do not stop at 5 p.m. or on a Friday evening. Where have the HSE and Government gone wrong on this? What have they done with the funding that should be coming into CAMHS and...

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am going to remind the Labour Members here today, and I can talk louder than them if they want me to talk louder. They are the hypocrites of the Dáil.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: They are the same people, when I was here in November in a truck, highlighting the fuel costs, who voted for carbon tax.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: They are the same. They are the same people who did not go out to the truckers who came up here to protest at the amount it was costing for fuel to feed the people of Ireland.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: They are the same people who have been the cause of the rise of inflation in every house in this country.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: They are the hypocrites of this Dáil.Where were they when the farmers came up here about the rising costs of farming? Where were they when the fuel costs were rising through the roof?

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I asked the Minister to put a freeze on the fuel tax that was being taken in so that if there was a fuel increase, we would not be paying extra tax on it, and these clowns over here are the ones who voted for it.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: These clowns that I am looking at here are the ones who are the absolute hypocrites of the Dáil.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Let the whole country see.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am sorry, I have not used my two minutes because Deputy Michael Healy-Rae’s clock was not stopped. These are the same hypocrites.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Thank God for social media because every vote they have taken has been against the people of Ireland. They voted against rural Ireland every time.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 31. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the issue of work permits that businesses paid for in January 2020 prior to the Covid-19 pandemic to bring staff into Ireland but the person did not enter Ireland due to the pandemic and the money was never refunded; if this money is refundable to these businesses; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 57. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will reconsider the groups of persons who will receive the once-off €1,000 payment to make it available to all persons who worked on the front-line in different sectors during the Covid-19 pandemic who all helped to keep the country running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3828/22]