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Mental Health Policy: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: Covid has shown us that mental health issues can arise as a result of people being lonely. Deputies Michael Collins and Mattie McGrath referred to this. Mental health issues in rural settings are on the increase because everything is closed. In the context of children and families, as Christmas approaches, drive-through Santa's grottoes are either being closed or cannot go ahead. What...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (9 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the restoration of salary cuts made in 2008 to section 39 workers in the remaining 250 organisations that have been affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42387/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (9 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the failure to publish a report on orthodontics by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42388/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (9 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 220. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on orthodontic appointments and anticipated wait times for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42389/20]

Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome this Private Members' Bill brought forward by Sinn Féin. It is hard to believe one in three women in Ireland is affected by domestic violence. It is not confined to class, age, race, sexuality, religion or disability. Reading again through speeches given by Deputies O'Reilly and McDonald in debates in November, I have learned the legislation brought forward by Sinn...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (8 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: I understand from the motion that exceptional circumstances exist and that a payment of €500 million this year would place an undue burden on the public finances. Some €9 billion is being made available from the European Central Bank, ECB, through the pillar banks as a stimulus to businesses in the economy. Where is the money going? The ECB has given this to the Irish banks....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: My question follows on from that of Deputy McAuliffe. I know many good tenants and landlords, and also some rogue tenants and landlords. When the level 5 restrictions were put in place, it was announced that there would be a rent freeze. Some people thought, on the basis of the information that went out there, that they did not have to pay rent during this period, and subsequently got...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: After that, can they raise a dispute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: They then have five days to raise a dispute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am talking about a dispute being raised with a landlord after the notice period. Is it correct that when a tenant raises a dispute, the information must be brought back within five days and then they must contact MABS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: On the issue of contacting MABS, I have sent many people who have fallen behind with rent payments to MABS to seek help. It has often happened that two or three weeks have passed before someone has been able to meet with them. In different counties, MABS is under different pressures. This is where I am going with my question. Mr. Lemass mentioned that only seven tenants have been referred...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Chair gave everyone else three or four minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: It will take me 30 seconds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: We have just come out of level 5 restrictions, and people have been under the misimpression that they do not have to pay rent. I have been told by MABS that in the past two to three weeks, there has been an increase in the number of people contacting it, because of the misinterpretation of the information issued to tenants in respect of a rent freeze. Now that we have moved to level 3...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (3 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 354. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding reduced hours for ShannonDoc services in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40929/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (3 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of commercial use of the Ballyhoura Mountains, County Limerick; his views on protecting recreational status in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40930/20]

Pre-European Council: Statements (2 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: This is only one example of an oversight. I was horrified but not surprised to see that on 24 November 2020 we had discovered, by chance, it seems, that there was a major export food problem with sausages and mince going to the UK. The current health certificate was only for frozen produce and had to be amended for fresh produce. I wish to remind the Minister of State that the UK is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: Where I am living in Granagh, there is no pub open now within a 15-mile radius. The pubs in Granagh, Ballingarry, Croom, Feenagh, Ballyagran and Croagh are all closed. What the Taoiseach is doing to all the people in my area, in a 15-mile radius, is shoving them into towns and cities if they wish to meet someone. We have small communities. We have small rural pubs where our people go...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: On my first day in the Dáil, I spoke about hospitals. I have said that every person training in this country, whether they are an apprentice blocklayer or an intern, should get paid. I ask the Minister to ensure the male and female student nurses on whom we depend are paid properly. They are the people on whom we have depended all our lives, and never more than during Covid-19. I now...

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: Not everyone went to college. The people who left school at 18, or even earlier, like myself, would have to work for 50 years to get a pension, yet I am here today speaking for the self-employed. I am self-employed. There are people who, under the guidance of the Government, will have to work for 50 years to get a pension. These are people who will build houses, people in all types of...