Results 41-60 of 2,061 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

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.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Tánaiste. I am going to go back to what the Taoiseach, Deputy Martin, said in 2013. Before I do, I must state that the Government is taking information on health issues from producers and manufacturers and ignoring World Health Organization guidelines. In 2013, the Taoiseach, Deputy Martin, referred to a full absence of transparency, an absence of consultation with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Will you give us a timeline?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: This goes back to when the Tánaiste was Taoiseach and we had a meeting about wind farms. He was asked five parliamentary questions. He responded to two immediately, delayed the response to two more, which came to him on 22 October, until the day of the election and has yet to respond to one.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: We asked him to clarify for how many years wind farm applications have been approved without HSE oversight. We asked why An Bord Pleanála ceased informing the HSE of such applications, whether An Bord Pleanála was instructed to stop the practice and who is responsible for ensuring public health risks are properly assessed in the planning process. Why were responses to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school in Limerick County received confirmation from her Department that its special education needs hours provided will be cut by 2.5 hours, even though the criteria state that a developing school would not lose hours. [8972/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Why has a school in my constituency got confirmation from the Department of Education that the SEN hours provided will be cut by 2.5 hours even though the criteria state that a developing school would not lose hours? I am talking about Meenkilly National School in Abbeyfeale.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Minister of State for his response but, on the criteria for this, enrolments make up 25%, pupils' standardised test scores in second, fourth and sixth class make up 68.5% and educational disadvantage is based on pupils' addresses. If you are within an urban area, you will not have any need because you have infrastructure in the area around you. Many rural schools have little...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: This is about the SEN hours that are being provided. On the criteria, a letter from the Department came to the school. The Department says the school is losing 2.5 hours while the Minister of State is saying it is not. Surely to God there has been a mix-up in the paperwork somewhere. I will work with the Minister of State to rectify that. I will again go back to equal opportunity in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will forward it to the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are still proposals to legislate for “Jennie’s Law”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8732/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Strategies (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 342. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine regarding the development of the National Biomethane Strategy, its progress to date; if there are any revised timelines that may now exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8735/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (27 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 352. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of providers currently accessing the Core funding steam for early childhood and education services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8731/25]

The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish the Minister and the Ministers of State very well in their new roles. On my first day in the Dáil, the first thing I spoke about was the health system in Limerick. The Ceann Comhairle at the time was Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl. I am asking for the Minister's and the Ministers of State's help in Limerick but I am asking for them to use a different approach. I am...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his appointment and wish the Minister of State the best of luck in his position. I welcome the people in the Gallery. For people fleeing from domestic violence, services like ADAPT in Limerick are not enough. People in the rural parts of Limerick have to travel to the city to get refuge. This is taking people from where they may have supports...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (26 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Department last assessed the impact of wind turbine noise from operating wind farms; if the Minister will provide a copy of the report (to include noise modelling); if the Minister will provide a list, of all wind turbine noise reports received to, or commissioned, since 2014, including the date, title,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 332. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on all capital works underway and starting in 2025 at UHL, to include the date of commencement works, project name, cost, description (bed type, number of, and so on) and expected completion date. [8551/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (26 Feb 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 333. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the extension of radiology unit at UHL, to include commencement of the works, description, cost, expected delivery date, expanded services (if the unit will include Alliance's MRI); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8552/25]