Results 1,401-1,420 of 2,081 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Dec 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: 395. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a date for the announcement of the forgotten farmer's scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62906/22]
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022) Richard O'Donoghue: Does an Independent councillor who is out on leave have the right to nominate a person to replace him or her? I ask as I am a former county councillor for Limerick and I was first elected as a Fianna Fáil councillor and the second time as an Independent. The council at the time told me it would object to me giving my seat to someone else after I was elected a Member of the Oireachtas...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022) Richard O'Donoghue: Co-option or absence.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022) Richard O'Donoghue: Yes. Also if the councillor is a single Independent then he or she should be recognised as a party because that person has been elected with a mandate. An Independent councillor should be deemed the same as a party and thus be able to nominate somebody.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022) Richard O'Donoghue: Is that provision for women?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022) Richard O'Donoghue: Yes, or if men are on paternity leave.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022) Richard O'Donoghue: The same provision should apply to males and females.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022) Richard O'Donoghue: That is fine.
- Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister organised a meeting last week at which the Taoiseach and the CEO of the University Hospital Limerick, UHL, group were present along with Deputies and Senators with regard to overcrowding at UHL. The first day I came here, I asked for the help. Two and a half years ago, I brought to the attention of the Dáil - it is on the Dáil record - the structure of UHL. The...
- Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: Sorry, Ceann Comhairle. I will listen to you.
- Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: I am not.
- Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: I am sorry, Ceann Comhairle. I hope you will allow time for me to explain with regard to the comments you made. The hospital has been this way for ten years. Media have been showing it since day 1. "RTÉ Investigates" went in to show it first hand. Peoples' lives are at risk. Are you telling me that if I were a manager of a company for ten years which got worse and worse, I should...
- Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: Yes.
- Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: The House has asked me before not to identify names which I did not. I went by the Ceann Comhairle's instruction, but I did say, "the CEO".
- Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: Okay.
- Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: You asked me not to mention the person's name.
- Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: I will not withdraw what I have said. I will stand over it for the protection of the people of Limerick, north Kerry, north Tipperary and Clare. I have asked the Minister for help. I understand where he is coming from - I really do - but I have to protect the people of Limerick and the surrounding areas who have asked me to protect them. Under fire safety alone, the fire certificate is...
- Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: Losing his or her life.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jan 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: 110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the Department of Rural and Community Development was allocated voted capital and current expenditure of only €331 million or 0.45% of the overall voted allocation in 2022 at a time when regional and rural infrastructure is creaking at the seams and many rural services are subpar or non-existent when compared with...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jan 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: Why was the Department of Rural and Community Development allocated voted capital and current expenditure funding of only €331 million, which is 0.45% of the overall voted allocation in 2022, at a time when regional and rural infrastructure is creaking at the seams and many rural services are non-existent by comparison with those in urban areas?