Results 261-280 of 2,078 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1287. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of healthcare workers suffering long Covid whose pay will cease on 31 March (details supplied) will be examined and discussed further; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11895/24]

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

Richard O'Donoghue: It goes without saying that the axis of support for persons with disabilities is failing due to a lack of funding and prolonged periods of waiting for appointments. The lack of funding in the budget was one thing, but this proposed amendment causes further insult and takes responsibility away from the Government and its commitment to provide for, protect and care for the most vulnerable...

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

Richard O'Donoghue: Hear, hear.

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....

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.

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: If I was running RTÉ, it would be run like a business. RTÉ is funded by this Government and it is a stakeholder in it. It is supposed to be a national television station. All they are doing is selling false information, as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been giving to their members for many years. It is all one-sided reporting. They have no respect for the people who work...