Results 241-260 of 2,274 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Court Judgments (19 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 915. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding the High Court’s ruling that wind turbine noise constitutes a nuisance (details supplied), if the Minister will confirm whether wind farm noise at 43 decibels LA90 is considered a statutory nuisance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11843/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (19 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1464. To ask the Minister for Health to prioritise the immediate funding and delivery of more public inpatient beds for eating disorder treatment, so that those in crisis receive the care they need in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10580/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (19 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1465. To ask the Minister for Health to prioritise reducing waiting lists for eating disorder treatment in order that vital early intervention can happen without delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10581/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1466. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently review the transition from CAMHS to AMHS ensuring continuity of care with no dangerous gaps for young people entering adulthood with an eating disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10582/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (19 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1467. To ask the Minister for Health to establish a special Oireachtas committee on eating disorders to ensure real accountability and that all commitments made under any new model of care are delivered in full; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10583/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1468. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a ringfenced, multi-annual funding for specialist hubs that are fully resourced, staffed, and accessible to everyone across Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10584/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (19 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1732. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of all HSE submissions on wind farm planning applications since 2021, in tabular form, including planning authority case file number, EHO reference number, wind farm name, planning authority, application type e.g., local authority, strategic infrastructure development, appeal, substitute consent, amendments, etc; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1884. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the Limerick surgical hub; the date of commencement of the works; the estimated cost of the hub; the expected delivery date; the services that will be provided; the number of additional new contracts for medical staff that is, consultants, non-consultants, nursing and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12635/25]

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish the Minister of State well in his role. We need gardaí in my area. We also need equipment for our gardaí. Searches and rescues happened during snow and storms. The Garda assisted in searches for missing persons and had to borrow equipment from another county. I wish to put a question on the record and would like a written response from the Minister of State. There...

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: It cost €1.4 million. The Minister of State should get his facts right.

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Check the record.

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister of State just said it cost €300,000. He should correct the record. It cost €1.4 million.

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Auxiliary works-----

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish the Minister well in his new role but I want him to do something different. I also wish the Minister of State, Deputy Moran, and others well in their roles but I am asking them, as business people, to do one thing. There are some on the Government benches who are business people and I want them to make their Departments accountable. In saying that, I want to make them accountable...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome the pupils and teachers from the CBS in Charleville who made the journey here today, especially Maddie, coming here on her sixth birthday, and my nephew Shane, who attends the CBS. I want to ask the Taoiseach about the defective blocks. He mentioned €2.2 billion is going to be spent on this. When the 5% tax on concrete products was brought in, it was €100 per sq....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will hold you to that, Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Tánaiste. I am going to go back to what the Taoiseach, Deputy Martin, said in 2013. Before I do, I must state that the Government is taking information on health issues from producers and manufacturers and ignoring World Health Organization guidelines. In 2013, the Taoiseach, Deputy Martin, referred to a full absence of transparency, an absence of consultation with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Will you give us a timeline?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: This goes back to when the Tánaiste was Taoiseach and we had a meeting about wind farms. He was asked five parliamentary questions. He responded to two immediately, delayed the response to two more, which came to him on 22 October, until the day of the election and has yet to respond to one.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: We asked him to clarify for how many years wind farm applications have been approved without HSE oversight. We asked why An Bord Pleanála ceased informing the HSE of such applications, whether An Bord Pleanála was instructed to stop the practice and who is responsible for ensuring public health risks are properly assessed in the planning process. Why were responses to...