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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: These are the three things. The Government does not address the issues at hand, which come up in all the different debates. It goes back to Irish Water because it is not able to deliver. We need developer-led infrastructure and then to hand it back to the government bodies to look after it. We have to find a way, with the help of the economists here today. How do we change the system,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have one final question on exports and imports into the country. The witnesses may be able to help me on a question about exports and tariffs. Am I correct in saying that if something leaves this country and is not complete it gets a different tariff? If, for example, it is machinery and is incomplete, is it a different tariff? If something comes into this country that is not fully...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: The reason we are looking at the transport network is for such situations as if you had large machinery or anything that is to come into the country. If it came in in four parts or whatever, it comes in containers and is assembled here. If a big unit was coming on a ship or whatever way it is coming into the country, it is a big unit. If it is broken into smaller units, you can fit much...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I would like to put on the record before we conclude this meeting that I thank the witnesses for answering these sorts of questions which were not on the invitation letter and how they explained them excellently. They did not have to but I welcome all their answers today. It was informative to everyone. They did not have to do it. I thank them for that. That concludes the session. I...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 222. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the current energy policy narrative that Ireland will become a significant exporter of renewable electricity, particularly wind energy, in view of recent Eurostat figures showing that Ireland was a net importer of electricity by over 3,000 GWh in 2023 and over 5,000 GWh in 2024, while electricity...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Prices (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 223. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has undertaken any cost benefit or an electricity price impact analysis regarding the warning raised by EirGrid that very significant levels of renewable power will need to be spilled under the current Climate Action Plan targets (details supplied); if, under the current Renewable Electricity Support...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Planning Issues (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 845. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the following details with respect to the HSE and four planning appeals submitted to An Bord Pleanála (details supplied) if the HSE received a notification of the planning appeal; if so, the date of notification and the body that issued the notification; whether the HSE made a submission to the appeal; and; if so, the date of any...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will give Mr. Madouros half a minute to come back on that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: This was not within the remit of those coming in today.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (8 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will let the witnesses answer.

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish to remember and acknowledge the late Mark Ryan who with his brother, David, was instrumental in the establishment of the scoping inquiry. There are no words for what has happened here. What was going through my head when I was coming over here is that, in this country, we commemorated 100 years of the troubles that we had. We are looking at this from 1927 to 2013. When you look...

Dental Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome Patrick. It is great to see a fellow Dromin man in the Gallery. The year 1968 is memorable to the Minister of State because his father was one of the members who set up St. Joseph's Foundation. It was set up to help vulnerable children and adults. It is still running and is a massive service that covers north Cork and south Limerick. Maybe it is time that history repeats...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is Maurice.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I am here with many friends today. I have the Knocklong Men's Shed and I have Patrick O'Dea here from Dromin. I have Maurice and Elly above in the Gallery and they are both wheelchair users. Maurice is from Granagh. He plays Munster hurling and tag rugby and he works in the HSE. He is 25. Maurice told me he had lost out on so much with his friends because...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: -----to see what we can do to help people in that situation.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: For leisure.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I ask everyone to please put their mobile phones and other devices on silent. Before we begin, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practices of the Houses as regards references witnesses may make to other persons in their evidence. Witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the presentation they make to the committee. This means that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: We might come back to it because I have another speaker and we are over time on the last two contributors. I am trying to be fair to everyone. Deputy Devlin is next.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: You can have a little extra time, Deputy.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute (15 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will start with energy and solar power. Solar has taken off and we discussed the reasons for this. We also mentioned obstacles such as planning. From my perspective, the reason is the planning guidelines from 2006 and the draft guidelines of 2019. There are actually no proper guidelines for wind farms. There have been court cases in which three wind farms have been stopped and some 70...