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Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I ask the Minister to look at all his Government's Deputies in the rural areas and what people are saying to them, which is the same thing, namely, that they are not representing the people they are supposed to. If there is a desire to make this a Government based on the cities of Dublin or Cork, then go ahead with that.

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I appreciate that, a Chathaoirligh Gníomhaigh, but I believe everyone has spoken here. Deputy Doherty spoke for 30 minutes, Deputy Carthy for 15 minutes, Deputy Michael Collins for 17 minutes, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae spoke for ten minutes, Deputy O'Reilly spoke for ten minutes and now you want me to try to get in five other speakers. Not only that-----

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Some people decided they wanted to have interactions and run down the clock themselves.

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: If other people who interacted with others while they were speaking had a bit of cop-on, they might have had a bit more time themselves. We are looking at the Minister's budget and he had €5 billion left over from excess taxes after the Government did its accounts this year. There is €5 billion left over and people have increases in their energy costs of up to 300%. The...

Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Deputy. Businesses that are trying to stay open have been fighting through Covid and through the warehousing of tax. What they were warehousing for tax is the money they were using, with the subsidies, to keep the doors open because of excessive prices. In his statement, the Minister stated that those who avail of this scheme have to be tax-compliant. What is going to happen...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The existing eviction ban ensures that the tenant who wilfully withholds rent or engages in antisocial or criminal behaviour will not be given an exemption from termination. However, People Before Profit's Bill aims to prevent landlords from evicting tenants who do not pay rent, leaving the landlords with no mechanism to reclaim their properties or tenancies. We have some fantastic...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will also support the amendment. The State incurs legal expenses while trying to fight cases in the HSE system and Government due to incidents which could have instead been dealt with so that people could learn from, admit to and work on them for the future and use them as a learning curve. People could admit they got things wrong and have to fix them, learn from what happened and move...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I also support the amendment. We have been talking about high-profile cases, and we have mentioned the case of Jessica Sheehy before. This is a high-profile case that has been going on over three years that has not been dealt with. People are making complaints, as the Deputies have said. There was a petition signed not so long ago in regard to 15,490 people on trolleys in Limerick in...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Minister for his comments earlier. All payments are welcome. Recently, a new alliance for smaller nursing homes was set up. I think it counts 18 or 19 nursing homes and more than 1,000 patients. The alliance feels that the new payments coming out are still not adequate for the smaller nursing homes. If there are new, increased payments, the alliance would like the...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will respond regarding the complaints about nursing home care throughout the Covid pandemic, whether these were from family members or HIQA. From the perspective of nursing homes run by the State and those run privately, and smaller versus bigger nursing homes, the report showed that smaller nursing homes had fewer complaints. They were better run and there were fewer complaints about...

Civil Defence Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister for Defence is responsible for Civil Defence policy with up to 70% of the cost of funding Civil Defence. The Department provides training for volunteers instructors and supplies equipment, vehicles, uniforms and PPE for Civil Defence volunteers. Civil Defence volunteers undertook 9,500 tasks during the pandemic, including transporting people to medical appointments, testing and...

Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: At the end of the year, the Government's budget showed it had taken €5 billion extra off the people in Ireland in taxes, even though Electric Ireland had €390.3 million in profits. I believe Bord Gáis Energy is expected to have €1 billion extra in its coffers this year than it had in 2021. Yet, representatives from Barnardos are in the audiovisual room in LH2000...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Government is taxing the people on its failure to provide alternatives, and the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, is part of that, as are the lot of other people around here, some of the Independents, who back the Government's policies when it comes time for a vote to put more taxes on the people. Fuel - tax at 50 cent in every euro. The clothes on their backs - tax. The food in...

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: This Bill has been passed by the EU. I have many concerns about this Bill. If one looks at the cost it will impose on farmers, we have always seen here from the medical side of things the way different measures have gone. What the Minister has done will mean that if the farmer wants a medicine, he will have got to go to the vet and the paper trail that will follow this has a cost. The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason cohabiting couples are classed as single people when it comes to their taxes, but are classed as cohabiting and get a reduced rate of social welfare payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6585/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are expected to introduce more outdoor educational activities at primary school level (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6583/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are expected to introducing more outdoor educational activities at primary school level (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6583/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 588. To ask the Minister for Health the drug cariban cannot be prescribed by a GP on the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6582/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 587. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug cariban cannot be prescribed by a GP on the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6582/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (14 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 589. To ask the Minister for Health the number HSE home help carers in County Limerick, in tabular form. [6584/23]