Results 41-60 of 2,078 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (25 Mar 2025)
Richard O'Donoghue: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if discussion is expected regarding CIÉ pensioners having not received an increase in their pension since 2008; when they will receive an increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13678/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Generation (25 Mar 2025)
Richard O'Donoghue: 465. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given that in 2015, the then-Minister committed that the Department would continue to liaise with the Department of Health regarding the potential health impacts of wind turbines, when the most recent dialogue took place; the outcomes; if no such dialogue has occurred, why not; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Generation (25 Mar 2025)
Richard O'Donoghue: 466. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can confirm if operating wind farms pose a health risk, given that all three published revisions of the 2006 wind energy development guidelines state that wind turbine noise must align with World Health Organisation (WHO) standards, while existing wind farms generally operate at noise limits at least six decibels...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Noise Pollution (25 Mar 2025)
Richard O'Donoghue: 809. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 26 February 2025, whether the recent advice received from the HSE aligns with the response given to Parliamentary Question No. 735 of 30 April 2024, which identified the World Health Organisation's 2018 recommendation as the appropriate guidance for wind turbine noise; and if she will make a statement on the...
- 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.