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Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Bus Éireann has asked private providers to make its vehicles smaller because the road carriageways have narrowed due to the law stating we cannot cut the hedgerows. Now we are driving small vehicles, and sometimes two vehicles when one would do, to collect children. We saw that free bus tickets were handed out. The reason most of the children who want to get on the bus with their...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Last week’s debate was on the problems we are having with An Bord Pleanála and the investigations into what is happening within it.

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will go back to the amendment. Amendments on anything to do with transport in this country should not be accepted until there is proper infrastructure. It goes back to what we said earlier on. It will come down to a situation where we will want everyone in this country to drink Red Bull and fly. Truck hauliers and private bus operators in this country have no other option because they...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is on the amendment, if the Acting Chair looks at it. Any of the proposals in the Deputy's amendment must not contribute to the carbon emissions from the transport sector. That is what is in the amendment, is it not? I am speaking to the amendment. Again, it is about the Deputy's lack of knowledge of the sector he is dealing with and a lack of infrastructure.

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Very strong words-----

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: On the amendment now, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: In my line of work, I am in construction and have been all my life. I look for the supply to rental accommodation. Nobody is building now for rental accommodation in our area. There is no one. In the other sector, very few people are buying houses for rental because they see all the criteria that surround that. I am very fortunate that in our area I know some fantastic landlords, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am sorry to cut across but the statistics should show areas and where the main issues lie within the rental property. There are always people who float but we also have people who have a five-year plan. They come to Dublin or wherever and they have a future plan. I have seen those young couples come to Dublin with their future plan and they want to move back down. There are sectors...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The social system is there to deal with that. The councils have that responsibility. Ms McCormick talked about the criteria and failing for one or two things but we could have a system that put those under the heading of minor faults and then there would be serious faults as well. With planning permission, there are constant objectors. If we put landlords into grades people could see if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Is it correct that there is a points system within the rental market so that if a landlord puts energy efficiency into a rental property, they can actually change the rent tariffs? They go on a points system if they, for example, go through the building, put in energy saving bulbs and do small, minor things. People who are involved in managing rentals have told me about a points system...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Ms McCormick stated it would involve an investment of €30,000 or €40,000. An investment like that is nothing when one considers the inflationary cost of insulation and all the rest of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is a no-brainer. If there was a tax refund-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Pre-63 properties or properties over a shop, for example, come under the new fire regulations and everything else. One may have a listed building and not be able to touch it, so one cannot bring it up to standard in terms of fire regulations in order to make it available for rent. There are many properties in towns and villages across Ireland that are caught up in the listed section and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: A normal company in a retail business is subject to 12%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: In the rental market, it is 25% tax.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Every day is a learning day. What I have learned today is that in order to incentivise people to bring properties up to a good standard, the taxation system for retrofitting needs to change. An incentive should be put in place in order that people will invest in properties that are of a poor standard and bring them up to a good standard. Another problem is that many landlords in areas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Sorry, I want to let Ms O'Reilly in. There is no incentive for the landlord to do that work.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are expected to reimburse host families for school transport for foreign-exchange pupils attending school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46443/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (22 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are expected with colleges to help students acquire accommodation in the student complexes that are housed by families and not students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46444/22]