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- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: On the basis of staffing, UHL has one of the highest turnovers of staff in the country. Why do you think that is?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: The questions Deputy Devlin asked the witnesses were good. If he is looking for the facts, I am a Limerick man myself. I am very thankful to the people from Clare and the representatives who are here. There is the question as to why there is such a turnover of staff. A major problem within UHL at the moment is that there is a massive language barrier within the staff.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: There is a major language barrier with the staff and the recruitment in UHL. They are all health professionals and I have no doubt about that, but it is a major problem when there are elderly people who cannot understand different languages. From the point of view-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: No, actually-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: No, if the Cathaoirleach will let me finish the point, I will be able to clarify it further. As a person who has been in other hospitals around the country, I welcome all the healthcare staff. Yet, I hear from the staff themselves - staff of all nationalities - that there is a problem with a language barrier that affects consultants, staff, etc. That is for all nationalities, and not just...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: I again thank the witnesses who came in today. I thank them for their courage and for the way they have united together, from Limerick to Clare to Tipperary. From what we can see, the people who are at the coalface of this will understand where it needs to happen and what needs to happen, which is the safety of the public. We can understand this. It has been going on for far too long. As...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: No.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: Ms Anna Kavanagh came to us with this one. We sent the report from the Ombudsman to her. We will ask her to come back to us. I agree with Deputy Buckley that this would need a Minister in.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: The first port of call on this one is for the reply from the Ombudsman to go back to the petitioner.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: We will get their response and take it from there.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: Yes.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: That is agreed.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: 226. To ask the Minister for Health if exceptions can be made for the inclusion of the drug ozempic to be included in the medical card drugs list for patients needing the drug for weight loss on the advice of their GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50317/23]
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: I apologise for being late. We had 37 ladies visiting from the Adare Women's 2020 Club in Limerick.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: Would the Cathaoirleach like me to name them all?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: You should never challenge a Limerick man because he is always up to the challenge and will always win. Getting back to the point at hand, when Deputies are elected to this House and are appointed as Ministers for a Department, they can have their personal assistants, PAs, with them, but they do not have any choice about who is the head of the Department they are over. This is the same as...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: Pat Smith, Margaret Hickey-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister of State said that 52% voted for and 48% voted against. He then quoted the programme for Government and said that it states 20%, which I accept. It was also in the programme for Government that there would not be a floating liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal, on which the Government has done a U-turn. It was one of the Green Party policies. Is it not the case that if...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: The Taoiseach was in Limerick during the week at the Limerick Chamber Regional Business Awards. When he spoke there, people were disillusioned and wondering if it was actually the Taoiseach speaking or an independent Deputy because what he was saying is not actually what his Government is carrying out. They actually thought, at the start of his speech, that he was reading my speech, with...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: I agree with the Taoiseach 100% that people who work in Ireland deserve to get fair pay. The top earner in the HSE earns €974,000 a year whereas a newly qualified nurse earns €32,552. Again, we go back to the people who work and these nurses work tirelessly to help us. The Government is backing a person who earns €18,730.69 per week against a nurse who earns...