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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of the Cross-Border Directive in tabular form; and the procedures which they required. [46442/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome the management of UHL to the committee. I would love to see UHL being the top hospital in the country. I have had family who trained in the hospital in earlier years and are near retirement age now. It was - and I emphasise "was" - the best training hospital in the country at that time. Student nurses wanted to go there to be trained because of what it meant to be trained in UHL....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will not mention any names.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have already put this on the record of the Dáil so am quoting what I have already quoted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Okay. Other incidents have happened in the hospital and it takes so long for legal to find out what happens. There is a cost to that, when that money could be used otherwise if somebody says we got it wrong and should put our hands up, that it should have been identified and reported, that we could have helped faster and used the money being used on legal - which is rising in UHL in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will finish with one question because my time is up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: What did HIQA bring up on its report when it looked at minor and major incidents and the ones that went to national? How many went to national reporting and how many were dealt with, according to the HIQA report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: In the HIQA inspection UHL got, was that highlighted-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I look forward to meeting the officials at the upcoming meeting.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I would not have an issue with carbon tax if there was an alternative. I really would not. There could be an alternative carbon tax if we had the infrastructure. However, at the present, we do not have the infrastructure. Carbon tax is an unjust tax at a time when we do not have alternatives. It is an unjust tax on people who have no choice but to drive a diesel or petrol car. It is an...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome some parts of the budget but I do not welcome a lot of it because it will not help the area I represent. In the Budget Statement today, the Minister for Finance said, "On the taxation side [that is, VAT and excise extensions] I am extending the current excise reduction of 21 cent per litre in respect of petrol, 16 cent per litre in respect of diesel". The Minister is trying to...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am a reformed smoker. I gave up cigarettes because I wanted to give them up and because of my health at the time I gave them up. Taxing people for whom this is their only comfort is not the right thing to do. I will not be in favour of this tax for that reason. This is the only comfort that many people have. They might suffer from a nervous disposition or, as some people said to me, it...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Issues regarding tax relief for agriculture are subject to EU approval. Why was this not dealt with before the budget? There is no recognition for the amount of technology that agriculture has embraced. Farmers have changed everything about the way they farm so they have played their part in addressing climate change. If this Government fails to recognise what agriculture is doing, it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Industry (29 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 4. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she will take to protect the tourism industry, which employs 10% of all employees in the country (details supplied) and if there are plans to protect this industry against energy price rises. [47830/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Industry (29 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: What is the Government proposing to do to protect the tourism industry, which employs 10% of all workers? The 9% VAT rate was a godsend for many hotels. How will the Government protect them against gouging by electricity and gas suppliers, who are making it impossible for hotels to continue operating?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Industry (29 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The labour-intensive tourism and hospitality sector provides employment to more than 270,000 people, whose livelihoods depend on tourism. Some 70,000 of those people are directly employed in hotels. That figure had grown to 90,000 in 2018 and 2019 and the hotel industry was hopeful that it would return to pre-pandemic levels, when it generated €12 billion in revenue for the economy....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Industry (29 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The hotel industry was accused of gouging. However, the Smith Travel Research, STR, report, which provides benchmarking and marketplace insight in a global hospitality industry monitor, stated that the average price of a Dublin hotel room during the high season was €187 and much lower throughout the country. It was definitely much lower in Limerick. For a Fianna Fáil Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Industry (29 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am not suggesting it in the first place. I am asking where we are going to put our visitors-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Industry (29 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I was not suggesting it in the first place. I am asking the Minister of State where-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Industry (29 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister of State is correct, and he would want to be very careful in how he is suggesting-----