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Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I would appreciate that and to be given time to speak. From the point of facts, putting 31 people into a 4,500 sq. ft. building with no services to get them in and out of there, makes no sense. They also want to put 251 people into a school with no facilities.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Again, these looney tunes are still talking.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Well, they are because they keep interrupting while I am talking facts. Ireland is not saying that it does not want to protect the people of Ukraine. Yes it does but it wants to give them a quality of life, not put them in tents or in buildings with no services. These Deputies want our own Irish people to sleep on the ground.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is what I am talking about; if they let people explain.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will, Chair.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The looney tunes.

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am only speaking the facts, Chair.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I agree 100%. I am in business and if you look at any business in this country, whether you are self-employed, you are a limited company or whatever you are, you are held accountable by Revenue and by the Departments. You are held accountable by everyone. Why is Tusla not held accountable in the same way HIQA needs to be held accountable? Anyone who makes a decision if it is with...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I refer to going to the health committee or whichever committee members said. The petition's committee is here for petitions. We have the same rights as the health committee or any other committee which have the likes of Tusla, HIQA or anyone else in front of them. It is not about whether "it is the case". It is the case and they should be brought in front of us. We have the same...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: No. We should insist.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I know nurses did not get paid during their internship until the last year. That was the case but now there is a payment in place. Do the junior doctors get paid or is it the same system as the one for nurses? That is one question I would have but as an employer, I know that if anyone works in a place where you have to have PPE gear, for example, the contractor provides it. If it is a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is the system in use in the UK. If nurses go for their training in the UK, they are supplemented but they are contracted to work back there for three years, not five. When a person went to the UK to do training as a nurse, some of the places here would not take him or her when he or she came back here. They said that the person was trained differently in the UK than a person is here....

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: To go back to construction, in a place of work, proper PPE gear must be supplied to everyone for their safety. Surely to God, if you are in a place of front-line services, everything you need must be supplied to you. There should not be any cost involved in that. If it is there for the private sector, why is it not there for the public sector? If it is enforced on the one hand but it is...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Yes, it is accessible under freedom of information, FOI.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: If a declaration were signed by the witnesses who appeared before the committee stating we could act on their behalf, we could then request information. I believe it goes back to them. They can authorise us to look for that information but it has to come from them.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: On the Senator's point about getting an independent voice on this, one thing we can do is look for the paperwork from the Gaffney family. We can also look for the declaration stating we can request the same information from the licensing authorities. We will then have paperwork from both sides to compare to make sure that when we make the decision, we will have both sides of the information...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Right.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Just to clarify, and this should go back to the petitioner, the way forward is through the Seanad. Send in the letters to everyone in the Seanad. On the basis that if the Government falls, this falls with it, we have to learn from mistakes. We saw what happened with the two most recent referendums that went to the country, where the result came back with a no vote to both. We have seen...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish to add one more thing, if I may. I appeal to the Seanad to listen to the voice of the people and to make sure this Bill gets the amendments and that it does go back to the Dáil, if that is the case. I make an appeal in this regard. I am appealing to the Seanad to make sure this Bill does not come in its current form.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: We are back to the issue of accountability, but now it is accountability in the context of people's lives. It is also in the context of the future of a family. They made the decision based on the protection of lives and now they are being treated in this manner. If there is a defective vehicle, of whatever type, the responsibility has to go back to the manufacturer, but it is fighting with...