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Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Hear, hear.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: As a person who has been in the building trade all his life, since leaving school early at 15, I have built many houses for people. I was glad to have and to create employment building houses. When I look at the record of the Labour Party and hear its members heckling across the floor, saying this, that and the other, I note the same people said in the media that they would build 1 million...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will talk straight here. Every Government that has come in here, including Labour of old, said it would build. That party had the Minister with responsibility for housing, Deputy Alan Kelly, at one time and built nothing while it was there. They are full of wind. It is like they are going to huff, they are going to puff and they are going to blow your house down. They are going to huff...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Deputy would want to check the media on that, would he not?

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: There was a media angle in some of the newspapers and Labour's Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin came out with it-----

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Look at the media.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I can get you help now.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the time that children are waiting for seno equipment to be provided in view that this delay is having an impact on their education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9971/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 619. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on trollies per day from December 2023 to date at University Hospital Limerick, in tabular form. [9970/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 739. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that HSE clerical staff currently on career breaks and requesting to return to work are not reinstated due to the HSE recruitment freeze; if these issues will be addressed to allow these staff return to their current positions as they are already employees of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have here some captions from my Auntie Eileen's day-to-day diary from 1936. One of the captions said that P. had gone to the creamery - P. was my father - that Ned Barry had called with the paper, that she and Kathy were reading the paper and that Ned Barry had gone out to help in the yard. I am very involved in vintage circles. Recently, I was taking stuff out of a loft. There was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank everyone for coming in. I was watching the proceedings online before I came in. Infrastructure is key and nothing can happen without it. We cannot build extra houses or accommodation if we do not have infrastructure. If a person in a town or village becomes homeless, the emergency facilities available to them through the various agencies are usually based in the cities. People...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is for anyone who wants to address it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have another quick question on this. Do the witnesses believe that we should protect people in the here and now? We should protect the facades and roof structures of our old buildings so that the streetscape does not change but modernise the back of these buildings so that we can house the people who need housing in these areas. We could bring old buildings in line with the fire...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have one small comment on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Brownfield sites need infrastructure. The data on sewerage systems in Ireland, for example, shows that they are at capacity. Brownfield sites need investment in sewerage capacity but that is not happening. The data is there to show that investment is only happening in the cities, which does not cover the brownfield sites in towns and villages.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have grown up with many people from different Traveller accommodation. I can remember long back to when Travellers were coming to different areas and the culture. In some places, where people are living in Traveller accommodation, it is very poor. Some people are in residential areas and others have bought their own houses. However, does the regulation cover where there is an influx of...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Primary care centres around the country can allow for step-down care. Why has the Government not used primary care centres more often? Who is stopping the primary care centres from being built and why have we not extended the primary care centres that are there at the moment to ensure we can take the pressure off accident and emergency departments? If somebody wants oxygen or wants to have...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am going to speak the facts. Last week, I got an email from the local authority to say that a 4,500 sq. ft. premises, Thomond House, had been sold in Galbally. Nobody in the community was contacted but the local authority sent us an email. Despite a lack of services there, they want to move 31 people into 4,500 sq. ft. I have been involved in housing women, children and vulnerable...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Will the Deputy let me speak or is he too ignorant to shut his mouth for two minutes?