Results 1,481-1,500 of 2,081 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are expected to introducing more outdoor educational activities at primary school level (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6583/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 588. To ask the Minister for Health the drug cariban cannot be prescribed by a GP on the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6582/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 587. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug cariban cannot be prescribed by a GP on the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6582/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 589. To ask the Minister for Health the number HSE home help carers in County Limerick, in tabular form. [6584/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 590. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE home help carers in County Limerick, in tabular form. [6584/23]

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The existing eviction ban ensures that the tenant who wilfully withholds rent or engages in antisocial or criminal behaviour will not be given an exemption from termination. However, People Before Profit's Bill aims to prevent landlords from evicting tenants who do not pay rent, leaving the landlords with no mechanism to reclaim their properties or tenancies. We have some fantastic...

Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Deputy. Businesses that are trying to stay open have been fighting through Covid and through the warehousing of tax. What they were warehousing for tax is the money they were using, with the subsidies, to keep the doors open because of excessive prices. In his statement, the Minister stated that those who avail of this scheme have to be tax-compliant. What is going to happen...

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I appreciate that, a Chathaoirligh Gníomhaigh, but I believe everyone has spoken here. Deputy Doherty spoke for 30 minutes, Deputy Carthy for 15 minutes, Deputy Michael Collins for 17 minutes, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae spoke for ten minutes, Deputy O'Reilly spoke for ten minutes and now you want me to try to get in five other speakers. Not only that-----

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Some people decided they wanted to have interactions and run down the clock themselves.

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: If other people who interacted with others while they were speaking had a bit of cop-on, they might have had a bit more time themselves. We are looking at the Minister's budget and he had €5 billion left over from excess taxes after the Government did its accounts this year. There is €5 billion left over and people have increases in their energy costs of up to 300%. The...

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will stop soon and leave time for the next speaker.

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I ask the Minister to look at all his Government's Deputies in the rural areas and what people are saying to them, which is the same thing, namely, that they are not representing the people they are supposed to. If there is a desire to make this a Government based on the cities of Dublin or Cork, then go ahead with that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 198. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the BIK tax as it is having a big impact on the people that have company vehicles with the escalating cost-of-living and the fact that electric vehicles cannot cover the distance daily with one charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9362/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (23 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 199. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the VAT increase to the hair and beauty industry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9363/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the increase in bullying in schools; if more resources can be made available to schools to provide counselling services for students seeking help; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9365/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if discussions are expected to increase the State pension by at least ten euro (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9364/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan (2 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the oversight that is kept of the moneys allocated to various projects within the €165 billion which was allocated to the National Development Plan (details supplied). [10773/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (2 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 136. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of foreign work permit applications applied for and granted in 2022 for workers in various companies in Limerick city and county, in tabular form. [10689/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (2 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the traffic delays experienced by employers and their employees in Limerick as a result of roads being replaced by cycle lane routes. [10774/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (2 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses built in each county in 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [10691/23]