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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 100%.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will finish on this. I thank my own officials for the work and long hours they have put in. I understand there is frustration and people want to have longer to discuss this. It is something we can look at in the future and I look forward to that. I am now adjourning-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am not having a debate on this. I am adjourning the committee now until our private meeting on 30 September.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Consultations (23 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 4. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reason her Department did not engage with all disability organisations (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50855/25]

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I met a man during the week who married a woman from County Tipperary. This is actually laughable. When the woman he married moved from County Tipperary to County Limerick, and went to renew her car insurance premium with the same company she has been insured with for the past 20 years, they charged her €179 more because she had moved to County Limerick. Even though the same person...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Independent Ireland has looked for the means test to be abolished. It is not about the means test; it is about care. If we are practical about it, an awful lot of people could be outside the threshold because they may have been left something by a loved one or their partner might be working two jobs to try to put food on the table and it puts them outside the means test threshold. If we...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: On 1 May, I asked a parliamentary question about the cause of the high volume of refunds in employment permit applications, which was resulting in delays. People are able to get permits, on the one hand, from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment but, on the other side, at the Department of justice, there are delays for visas. The left hand is doing one thing and the right hand...

Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am delighted to welcome the Ryder Cup to Ireland and that it will be in Limerick, the real capital of Ireland, as I call it. We now have a world-class golf tournament in Ireland. I have to thank the McManus family for what they have done not only for Limerick but the rest of the country and for what they have invested in this country and in Adare, Country Limerick. I am delighted for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 116. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has in place a strategy to cut the waiting lists for speech and language therapy assessments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50452/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 403. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients in each of the years 2021 to 2024 and to date in 2025, on waiting lists in University Hospital Limerick who have received care via third party insourcing activity, in tabular form; the extent to which this activity has reduced waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52625/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: People may know me as passionate. I am actually speechless after seeing what the Government has brought into the budget, and I am not often speechless. I also feel empathy for the people who work in this country. I have had families on to me again today saying they were hoping they would have something in this budget that would help them to survive. Instead, the more they work - and they...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Fianna Fáil was once known as the workers' party; Fine Gael was once known as the farmers' party. Both parties have turned their back on the hard-working people who supported them and put them back into this House. They put the two fingers up to them and told them, "We don't care." Constituents voted for those parties or voted for me and I work for all of them. I work for everyone....

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Representatives of the European Committee of the Regions (8 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Yes, that is 100% right.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (9 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 25 March 2025, if he is aware of the EPA’s Pro-Health SEA research (ref. 2022-HE-1171), published February 2025, which recommends early engagement with public health experts in Strategic Environmental Assessment (details supplied); if he will liaise with the Department of...