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Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: My remarks are not directed at the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, because I know she is a good person. However, there comes a time that there has to be accountability for the actions of people within the Department of Health. This issue affects the most vulnerable people in society. I refer to the money being spent on legal challenges and investigations in respect of people who are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is ironic that Fine Gael has raised this issue today. It was under the previous Government and the current Government that broadband was not rolled out in the first place. Listening to the Fine Gael Deputies, the doors are open now and things are all wrong. It was under their regime that broadband was not rolled out properly in the first place. Rural areas have suffered under the...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: We have seen from the minutes of the Council meeting, from which I quoted, that Ireland has lost its voice in Europe. Do our MEPs need a Lemsip or lozenges to get their voice back? The minutes referred to every other member state but Ireland was not mentioned. What has gone wrong? On the issue of vaccines, we have seen what is happening in regard to the contracts with AstraZeneca. I...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: On a point of order, I said I would take advice from my doctor in the context of having an underlying condition. Again, the Minister of State goes to the gutter and cannot give answers to the questions raised. If he were as good at answering questions as he is at-----

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am just a mere mortal when it comes to European law and the ongoing European Council meetings. Clearly, there are not enough mortals from Ireland going to these meetings. I had to read through the minutes of the meeting we are discussing and nowhere did I see any mention of the horrors that hauliers and firms in Ireland are going through in order to get their goods delivered. Ireland is...

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I support this motion. I cannot thank carers enough for the work they do in their own homes and the homes of others in Limerick and around the country. Since coming into the Dáil, I have continuously spoken about the rural-urban divide and today, I want to highlight the issue again. Take, for example, the situation in a typical rural setting in which a tender goes out for the care of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I would hate to pull the Minister of State on one of her own comments. She said the churches are open online. I have spoken to people from Granagh, Ballingarry, Croom and Patrickswell, and I can keep naming places, who have told me their Internet service breaks down every day because of the failure of the roll-out of broadband. The churches are not open online. They are not there. Last...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing this Topical Issue debate. Is this Government anti-religion? I am entitled to have my religion, just as everybody else is entitled to their religion. We are entitled to worship. This Government does not know whether it is legal to allow us to worship. We are the only country in Europe in this position. A case was taken in Scotland, yet the legal...

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: There is only one way we will stop insurance fraud and that is by making people accountable. There are people whose families have a history of claims. We probably all know people or families who have made massive claims. There is no problem with people making insurance claims that are warranted, needed and just but we have serial claimants. We have to link it to something. We have to...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: More than 3,000 renters are currently protected from eviction and rent increases under the emergency Covid-19 housing legislation, which was introduced on 27 March 2020. The purpose of this Bill is to extend the emergency period specified in the Planning and Development, and Residential Tenancies, Act 2020 until 12 July 2021 and to provide the necessary amendments to the Act and to the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (24 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: 568. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on foreign production companies having an obligation to hire production and acting staff here given the financial exemptions they receive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14697/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (24 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the inclusion of the cost for PPE equipment for medical card holders seeking appointments at dentist clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14698/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank our guests for coming in. My question follows on and is on the same theme. I am delighted that Deputy Ó Broin has one of the lowest expenses because when one comes to rural areas, one has to travel a lot of miles and cover a lot of ground compared to smaller areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I want to ask about media platforms under GDPR. Data went out from the Department recently about a new road to check out areas and tell people in that area that they are on a route. Under GDPR, the Department could not send a letter to each of the individual houses but instead had to send them out in a flier system. It meant that only 10% of the people got the fliers because of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: The committee met yesterday. I have listened to other speakers this morning. As a public representative and member of this committee, my job is to scrutinise every Bill introduced. I would not be doing my job if I did not push for scrutiny of this Bill, although, as mentioned by other speakers, we do not have it in front of us today. It is members' duty to scrutinise Bills. What has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: Is that number correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I think it is seven-six and not seven-five.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: Maybe we would want to scrutinise this as well.

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: On Monday last, the Government unveiled plans to reform the CAO system of access to third level education. This news is certainly welcome and the three-year plan will lead to an increase in the number of apprenticeships to 10,000 every year by 2025. The programme should be much more ambitious in respect of apprenticeships, however. I propose that the target should be 15,000 apprenticeships...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Taoiseach will be talking to the new US President, Joe Biden, for St. Patrick's Day. Will he ask Mr. Biden to help Ireland? We need to get outside of the EU process and get the vaccines into this country. All of the Irish people in America will help us. All the Taoiseach has to do is open his mouth and say, "Please support the Irish", and they will do it.