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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (23 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 290. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if discussions are expected to provide school lunches to all schoolchildren in all schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14501/23]

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have been a builder all my life. I have been building from when I was a teenager to today when I am over 50. Since I have been elected to this House, I have been trying to give advice to the Government regarding the shortfall and why we cannot build houses. The Minister was in Limerick recently and we went around all the places where he was announcing houses. Every one of the...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The people who backed Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael asked them when they were at the doors when they were canvassing at the last election not to join with the Green Party. They said they would destroy forestry, which the Green Party has done at first hand. They said they would destroy farming, which Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have done themselves. We now have a housing crisis. Why is...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: They have gone for the gutter.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (30 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are expected to allow Irish to be an optional subject at post-primary level (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15875/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 216. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if discussions are expected to increase the staffing levels in the services for children with special needs in Limerick County; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15877/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Mar 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 295. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a final date for the remainder of the pandemic payments to be paid (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15876/23]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Since the start of Russia's war, the EU and its member states have made around €67 billion available to Ukraine and its people. We have provided €17 billion in supports for refugees, €37.8 billion in economic assistance and €12 billion in military support. I was delighted to see that €56 million tonnes of goods were exported from Ukraine thanks to the...

Finance Bill 2023: Financial Resolution (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome this initiative. As a contractor myself, I wish to ask the following. When I buy something off the shelf, it includes 23% VAT. If I fit it, there is 13.5% VAT. The 23% VAT rate is removed and the 13.5% rate is applied. If somebody comes in off the street and buys a solar panel at 23% VAT before getting his or her own installer, does the grant cover that? Farmers have many...

Finance Bill 2023: Financial Resolution (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: What about supply and fit?

Finance Bill 2023: Financial Resolution (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is supply and fit, and not supply only.

Finance Bill 2023: Financial Resolution (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Therefore it is 13.5% VAT and not 23%.

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Benefit-in-kind is quite complicated. The Bill facilitates a temporary change to the regime for petrol and diesel vehicles, which make up the majority of company cars for employees who have experienced higher income tax liability since the start of 2023. I welcome the amendments the Minister was forced into making. Cars doing 50,000 km a year and with an emissions rating of 120 g will now...

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: He does not have one.

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The question I asked was whether the Deputy has an electric car.

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Deputy does not have one.

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Does the Deputy have an electric car?

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is the only question I asked.

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Is Deputy Healy-Rae convinced?

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: A single 1,000 lb EV battery takes about 5,000 lb of raw material to manufacture. To transition just our passenger cars to EVs, we need to mine more material over the next 30 years than we have ever mined in human history.