Results 741-760 of 2,141 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Enterprise Support Services (14 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the rising energy costs and the sustainability of small businesses that have no access to the natural gas grid and are using LPG and BioLPG as an alternative (details supplied); and if he will re-examine the support scheme and amend it to include these businesses. [62319/22]

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am pleased to see that the Minister and the Minister of State are here. I thank them for staying on. I am calling this evening for an investigation into the non-reporting of incidents at University Hospital Limerick, UHL, despite calls continually being made to stop the practice. Staff are unable to put incidents on Q-Pulse because this immediately triggers a response from management...

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: This Bill is required so that spending that happened in 2022 is sanctioned and legislated for, and so the spending in 2023 can happen. I am very concerned that there has been a huge amount of money, €673 million, not spent this year and similar last year. Can the Minister, Deputy McGrath, honestly look in the faces of the people at the moment and tell them that €673 million...

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is what the Government is doing. It is hypocritical. The Government is opening up the Dáil on Saturday for a change of Taoiseach from Tánaiste and the other way around. It could be done during the week. Anyone here would have accommodated it during the week. Even if it was late at night or early in the morning we would accommodate it. The Government is sending people home...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: On Housing for All, let us talk about Limerick. The LDA was set up in 2018. How many houses were built in Limerick since then? I cannot hear the Minister for Finance. None, is it? That is right; no houses were built in Limerick. Very good. After investing €1.2 billion in the LDA, not one house was built in Limerick, but the members of the Government, including the Minister for...

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: This Bill is being rushed through. I have no doubt but that it will go through the House and proceed to Committee Stage, where there will be amendments. Deputy Nolan said and I repeat that Independent Senator Boyhan put down nine amendments, all of which were ruled out of order. The Government is not listening to the people on the ground who know what they are talking about. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Last night we debated an important Bill on patient safety. How can we have a good hospital system if the HSE investigates itself? Why can we not have an independent body to investigate serious complaints against hospitals like University Hospital Limerick? Some 70 health professionals - the Tánaiste is also a health professional - came forward on Q-Pulse to report incidents. Some 140...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: There are HSE members on it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: They are made up by HSE bodies.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 330. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding student nurses; the reason that many of the recommendations of the McHugh report which were due to be implemented by September 2022 have yet to be implemented, resulting in student nurses and midwives continuing to struggle to meet the costs of their training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61516/22]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Does an Independent councillor who is out on leave have the right to nominate a person to replace him or her? I ask as I am a former county councillor for Limerick and I was first elected as a Fianna Fáil councillor and the second time as an Independent. The council at the time told me it would object to me giving my seat to someone else after I was elected a Member of the Oireachtas...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Co-option or absence.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Yes. Also if the councillor is a single Independent then he or she should be recognised as a party because that person has been elected with a mandate. An Independent councillor should be deemed the same as a party and thus be able to nominate somebody.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Is that provision for women?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Yes, or if men are on paternity leave.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The same provision should apply to males and females.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is fine.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I hope the media are listening to this. I would like the people of Ireland to know what happens following a serious incident or death in a HSE hospital. If someone is unfortunate enough to be injured or if a loved one is injured or, worse, dies under the care of a HSE hospital, this is what happens afterwards. I ask the Minister to give me his attention. A member of staff who has...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will. The Medical Council then seeks a so-called external expert investigation. This expert is usually a past or present HSE employee. If a serious concern is brought to the national patient safety office in the Department of Health, a past or present member of the HSE is working there and the Minister for Health is the head of the service. The same Minister appoints certain members of...

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Hear, hear.