Results 161-180 of 2,189 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1468. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a ringfenced, multi-annual funding for specialist hubs that are fully resourced, staffed, and accessible to everyone across Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10584/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (19 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1732. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all HSE submissions on wind farm planning applications since 2021, in tabular form, including planning authority case file number, EHO reference number, wind farm name, planning authority, application type e.g., local authority, strategic infrastructure development, appeal, substitute consent, amendments, etc; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1884. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the Limerick surgical hub; the date of commencement of the works; the estimated cost of the hub; the expected delivery date; the services that will be provided; the number of additional new contracts for medical staff that is, consultants, non-consultants, nursing and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12635/25]

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish the Minister of State well in his role. We need gardaí in my area. We also need equipment for our gardaí. Searches and rescues happened during snow and storms. The Garda assisted in searches for missing persons and had to borrow equipment from another county. I wish to put a question on the record and would like a written response from the Minister of State. There...

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: It cost €1.4 million. The Minister of State should get his facts right.

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Check the record.

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister of State just said it cost €300,000. He should correct the record. It cost €1.4 million.

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Auxiliary works-----

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish the Minister well in his new role but I want him to do something different. I also wish the Minister of State, Deputy Moran, and others well in their roles but I am asking them, as business people, to do one thing. There are some on the Government benches who are business people and I want them to make their Departments accountable. In saying that, I want to make them accountable...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome the pupils and teachers from the CBS in Charleville who made the journey here today, especially Maddie, coming here on her sixth birthday, and my nephew Shane, who attends the CBS. I want to ask the Taoiseach about the defective blocks. He mentioned €2.2 billion is going to be spent on this. When the 5% tax on concrete products was brought in, it was €100 per sq....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will hold you to that, Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Tánaiste. I am going to go back to what the Taoiseach, Deputy Martin, said in 2013. Before I do, I must state that the Government is taking information on health issues from producers and manufacturers and ignoring World Health Organization guidelines. In 2013, the Taoiseach, Deputy Martin, referred to a full absence of transparency, an absence of consultation with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Will you give us a timeline?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: This goes back to when the Tánaiste was Taoiseach and we had a meeting about wind farms. He was asked five parliamentary questions. He responded to two immediately, delayed the response to two more, which came to him on 22 October, until the day of the election and has yet to respond to one.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: We asked him to clarify for how many years wind farm applications have been approved without HSE oversight. We asked why An Bord Pleanála ceased informing the HSE of such applications, whether An Bord Pleanála was instructed to stop the practice and who is responsible for ensuring public health risks are properly assessed in the planning process. Why were responses to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school in Limerick County received confirmation from her Department that its special education needs hours provided will be cut by 2.5 hours, even though the criteria state that a developing school would not lose hours. [8972/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Why has a school in my constituency got confirmation from the Department of Education that the SEN hours provided will be cut by 2.5 hours even though the criteria state that a developing school would not lose hours? I am talking about Meenkilly National School in Abbeyfeale.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Minister of State for his response but, on the criteria for this, enrolments make up 25%, pupils' standardised test scores in second, fourth and sixth class make up 68.5% and educational disadvantage is based on pupils' addresses. If you are within an urban area, you will not have any need because you have infrastructure in the area around you. Many rural schools have little...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: This is about the SEN hours that are being provided. On the criteria, a letter from the Department came to the school. The Department says the school is losing 2.5 hours while the Minister of State is saying it is not. Surely to God there has been a mix-up in the paperwork somewhere. I will work with the Minister of State to rectify that. I will again go back to equal opportunity in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will forward it to the Minister of State.