Results 461-480 of 2,078 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The high cost of doing business in Ireland is extremely challenging. We can see that each week in our shopping bills. I selected basic shopping bills from trolleys over seven years and noted that, surprisingly, the basic prices of milk, eggs, bread and butter have increased by 15% and those of vegetables and meat have gone up by 40%. This highlights to me the issues of farmers' inputs,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Forty years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Forty years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Forty years of raw sewage.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Forty years of raw sewage.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Forty years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Uisce Éireann, non-Uisce Éireann places.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The rural regeneration and development fund is a “commitment of €1 billion by government to be invested in rural Ireland over the period 2019 to 2027”. Those are the Government's words. The fund was set up to develop infrastructure that may be needed to support town centre housing and commercial development. With what? There is no investment in basic infrastructure...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: -----and anti-afforestation. Licensing in afforestation has dropped by 100%. The Government is anti-transport, delaying the ability of persons to get a driving test by up to six months in rural Ireland. Driving is our only form of transport. I cannot stress enough the importance of this for our population. To get to schools, colleges, sport and work in rural Ireland, we need basic...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Tánaiste is now talking about the number of houses being built in rural Ireland. The Government is allowing raw sewage from Askeaton to go into the River Shannon, from Dromcolliher into the River Deel and from Kilbeheny into the River Funshion. It is the biggest polluter environmentally in Ireland. It fines farmers, businesses and householders for any small pollution, but it is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Kilbeheny. Oola.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Go down and drink the water there now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: It did not know the sewerage system was there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: It did not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the committee for allowing me to come in now as I have another engagement to attend. Regarding local authorities with zoned lands, infrastructure for them is non-existent in County Limerick. The lands are zoned under local area plans and the residential zoned land tax is coming in, yet in some cases there is no infrastructure in those towns or villages where the zoned land is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank Mr. Hogan for his answer. There are lands in different areas of County Limerick, for example, in Croom. At the moment, there is serviced land in Croom but the infrastructure's sewerage capacity only allows for 300 more units but the land zoned for development is for up to 1,000 units. There is serviced land, which has been taken over, but there is also a problem with capacity on an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: That excludes two thirds of County Limerick because of our infrastructure problem. We have development land. Areas have already been targeted that have infrastructure and can be opened up for infrastructure but it wipes out two thirds of County Limerick, which people want to have developed but cannot.

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber and listening to us, as every time the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, sees us coming, he is gone because he knows we are telling the truth.

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I believe he has gone from being green to being yellow. Like the coward of the county, he is out the door as fast as his legs can carry him when he sees us coming because he knows we speak the truth. We are self-employed, so we understand what the carbon tax and energy crisis can do to businesses and every person in this country. That is why he runs from us and hides when we are in the...