Results 181-200 of 1,891 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue
- 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 (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...
- Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: What Israel is doing is disgusting. It is wrong. Men, women and children are suffering and dying needlessly. I am looking at this from the point of view of a Deputy, father, brother and nephew. What is happening here disgusts me. People are calling for the Israeli ambassador to be expelled. The first thing I would have said would be to do this, then, after thinking about it, I would say...
- 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-----
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: We are talking about the electoral reform Bill. The County Limerick constituency was always a three-seater. For many decades it elected two Fianna Fáil Deputies and one Fine Gael Deputy, or two Fine Gael Deputies and one Fianna Fáil Deputy, until we broke the record and now it is one Fianna Fáil Deputy, one Fine Gael Deputy and one Independent Deputy. I believe I am the...
- Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: First, I thank Labour for the motion being brought before us today. I am so thankful for home help. My father managed to live to the ripe old age of 98, and would have been 99 if he had lived to his next birthday. He would not have done that only for the care of the home help. I am from a large family, and we were lucky enough that between our own family and the home help, that was the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (7 Nov 2023)
Richard O'Donoghue: 1261. To ask the Minister for Health the specific policy in relation to prosthetic funding for each community healthcare organisation area; the reason for such disparities in each of the CHO areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48244/23]