Results 281-300 of 2,274 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish the Ministers well in their new positions. I have been in construction all of my life. Part of the Government's plan is now to allow buildings at the back of other properties. I do not have an issue with that once they are proper buildings that can be built. What I do have an issue with are the planning guidelines as they apply in County Limerick. For a number of years, we have...

Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I congratulate the Minister and the Minister of State on their roles and I look forward to working with them, but we are here again and it is no different than last year or the year before. We now have new people in charge of the Department but we are still looking for resources for special needs. The term "special needs" says it all. There is no doubt that gender and complex needs have...

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (12 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish both the Minister and Minister of State well in their positions. I look forward to working with them. As my colleagues have said, infrastructure is the main issue. I went across the road today to Buswells Hotel to meet Uisce Éireann. I am probably one of Uisce Éireann's biggest critics. I have been in business all my life. I like value for money and I do not believe...

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: As someone who has been in construction all my life, I have spent the past five years in the House telling people they cannot build houses without infrastructure. We cannot build houses without having water, sewerage, electricity and an Internet service. The LDA has not built one house in Limerick. It publicly stated it would not invest 15 minutes outside any city. That takes out two...

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: A lot of the damage that was done in this storm was due to all the regulations that were put in place and, consequently, caused by the Government. We cannot cut trees. We cannot cut hedgerows. The Government has put a lot of red tape on Departments and local authorities must enforce it. That has caused an awful lot of damage. It resulted in power lines coming down all around this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (11 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the defective concrete blocks grant scheme increase (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4832/25]

Government’s Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: We are talking about the storm but in Limerick we had two storms. First we had the storm that led to snowfall. Met Éireann did not put out a red weather warning for Munster for that storm. We had up to three feet of snow in an area stretching from Kerry all the way back down to Limerick, as well as in other parts of Munster. There was no red warning for that storm. The following...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish Deputy Martin and his family well on his nomination as Taoiseach. As the general secretary and deputy leader of Independent Ireland, I believe it is now time for people to lead. When Deputy Martin is appointing people to ministerial positions, I remind him of the one thing I have always said to him, which is that they should be spread out throughout the country to represent Ireland...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: On a point of order.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: There is a point of order.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: A Cheann Comhairle, there is a massive conflict of interest here. I have done a submission on the conflict of interest for Independent Ireland. The Regional Independents nominated you as Ceann Comhairle. If this was any court in the land, a judge would not be allowed to preside over a family case.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: In this case - not taking from the Ceann Comhairle's character - but in the interests of fairness-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Jan 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: -----and the protection of the Ceann Comhairle, she should step aside and let somebody else deal with this issue. I am not taking from her character.

An Dáil a chur ar Athló - Adjournment of Dáil (18 Dec 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have been in business all my life - over 30 years self-employed. We might look at all the SMEs in this country. We are breaking in my business on Friday. We are back on 6 January. Most businesses around this country are working. What is wrong with this Chamber coming back to work? This is the division between real workers and real business and this Chamber. The Government is afraid...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I congratulate the Ceann Comhairle on her position and Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl on the great work he did in his time in the Chair. I thank everyone in County Limerick who voted for me and entrusted me to serve in the Thirty-fourth Dáil. I thank all the canvassers, all the office staff, all my family and all my friends who entrusted me to represent them in Limerick and...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Ceann Comhairle as I have probably given him a couple of hairy moments throughout the five years of my first term. Please God I will be returned again. As the Minister said, it will be up to the electorate. We are all here to represent the people who elected us. All I can do is wish everyone health going forward, both those people who are to return and those who are retiring....

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have been in construction all my life, with over 30 years of experience, and am still in construction on a daily basis. I start work on site at 7 o'clock in the morning because most of the Departments I deal with do not open until 9 a.m. or 9.30 a.m. I get my day's work done in the morning before I come to work at all. That keeps me in tune with inflation, labour and material costs and...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The first day I came to the Dáil, I was greeted by a good Limerick man who brought me in. His first bit of advice for me was to get lost if I wanted to learn the House. When I asked what he meant he said I should get lost and go into every corridor and room because I would eventually find out where to go. He said I would learn very fast and it was only the way to get experience of the...

Carer's Allowance: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: If we look around the Public Gallery we see the next generation of people. We are their carers. The vulnerable people in this country are being penalised for caring for people. They are being penalised. The means test for anyone that is caring for somebody should be abolished. It is caring; that is what they are doing. If we look at the money paid to the people at the very top levels of...