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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Generation (25 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 466. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can confirm if operating wind farms pose a health risk, given that all three published revisions of the 2006 wind energy development guidelines state that wind turbine noise must align with World Health Organisation (WHO) standards, while existing wind farms generally operate at noise limits at least six decibels...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Noise Pollution (25 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 809. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 26 February 2025, whether the recent advice received from the HSE aligns with the response given to Parliamentary Question No. 735 of 30 April 2024, which identified the World Health Organisation's 2018 recommendation as the appropriate guidance for wind turbine noise; and if she will make a statement on the...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: We are here today for a vote of no confidence in the Ceann Comhairle. Many previous speakers referred to right and wrong. I have a copy of the Standing Orders in front of me. If you were to follow the Standing Orders last week - what was done right and what was done wrong. I was the person from Independent Ireland who emailed the Ceann Comhairle at the time and asked her, as well as at...

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish the Minister well in his position and I look forward to working with him. I have been in construction all my life and I want to give the Minister a bit of advice and to ask him for his help. Why can we not extend the fee waiver for planning permission to help people who are building their own houses, which means they are not depending on the State and also helps address inflation...

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: What about value for money?

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Is that value for money? Come on.

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: No infrastructure, no houses. There is no infrastructure.

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: There is no infrastructure. The Minister of State should talk about something he knows about. He knows nothing about building.

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: He knows nothing about building.

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I live it every day. The Minister of State knows nothing about it.

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister of State knows nothing about value for money. He knows nothing about building.

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Go away. The Minister of State should talk about something he knows about.

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is a waste of money.

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister of State needs to get real.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett well in his treatment. Please God everything goes well for him. This question is for the Minister of Health and relates to the freeze on UHL. Two Limerick people are coming home from Australia. One is a physiotherapist and the other is an ICU nurse. The ICU nurse had been told they had a position in the hospital but they received a letter to say it...

Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I note that the Ceann Comhairle has asked people to stick to the topic, which I will. I will highlight a few issues. I support the Bill. I support any Bill that will allow a person to get his or her pension either before or at retirement age. The retirement age is now 66. I believe the Government should honour a person with an employment contract that was completed before the legislation...

Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Ceann Comhairle, in the position she is in at the moment, is pulling us for something she was well able to do in the past. That is a point of humour, rather than a criticism. I support any Bill that will help people in this respect. I suggest to the Minister of State that I would like to open up negotiations for people outside the current criteria. This would allow us to move forward,...

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Is the Minister up for taking help from someone who is in the construction sector, who knows water and sewerage and knows how to fix and maintain them? Will he take my offer of helping him to save money and get more value for money? Will he take that offer? I can help him to save money on what he is giving Uisce Éireann and get more infrastructure in place with the same money. If he...

Protecting the Irish Economy Against Increasing Trade Tariffs: Motion [Private Members] (9 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: What is our first problem when we see tariffs? Trump met our Taoiseach before St. Patrick’s Day and invited Conor McGregor to meet him on St. Patrick’s Day. That is what he thinks of Ireland. He looks at Ireland as a tax haven for companies but what he needs to realise is that it is a tax nightmare for workers. Trump also needs to realise that one in every ten people in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (10 Apr 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is an increase or a proposed increase in VRT for full electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18163/25]