Results 941-960 of 2,078 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: If you ran your business like I run mine, you would not be in business.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: I am talking about tax, Taoiseach; VAT.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Tax.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Tax.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: In my line of work, I am in construction and have been all my life. I look for the supply to rental accommodation. Nobody is building now for rental accommodation in our area. There is no one. In the other sector, very few people are buying houses for rental because they see all the criteria that surround that. I am very fortunate that in our area I know some fantastic landlords, and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: I am sorry to cut across but the statistics should show areas and where the main issues lie within the rental property. There are always people who float but we also have people who have a five-year plan. They come to Dublin or wherever and they have a future plan. I have seen those young couples come to Dublin with their future plan and they want to move back down. There are sectors...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: The social system is there to deal with that. The councils have that responsibility. Ms McCormick talked about the criteria and failing for one or two things but we could have a system that put those under the heading of minor faults and then there would be serious faults as well. With planning permission, there are constant objectors. If we put landlords into grades people could see if...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Is it correct that there is a points system within the rental market so that if a landlord puts energy efficiency into a rental property, they can actually change the rent tariffs? They go on a points system if they, for example, go through the building, put in energy saving bulbs and do small, minor things. People who are involved in managing rentals have told me about a points system...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Ms McCormick stated it would involve an investment of €30,000 or €40,000. An investment like that is nothing when one considers the inflationary cost of insulation and all the rest of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: It is a no-brainer. If there was a tax refund-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Pre-63 properties or properties over a shop, for example, come under the new fire regulations and everything else. One may have a listed building and not be able to touch it, so one cannot bring it up to standard in terms of fire regulations in order to make it available for rent. There are many properties in towns and villages across Ireland that are caught up in the listed section and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: A normal company in a retail business is subject to 12%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: In the rental market, it is 25% tax.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Every day is a learning day. What I have learned today is that in order to incentivise people to bring properties up to a good standard, the taxation system for retrofitting needs to change. An incentive should be put in place in order that people will invest in properties that are of a poor standard and bring them up to a good standard. Another problem is that many landlords in areas...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Sorry, I want to let Ms O'Reilly in. There is no incentive for the landlord to do that work.
- Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Irish Water was allocated a fund for the greater Dublin area drainage project of €410 million and €294 million for the water supply project. The funding for these two projects was ring-fenced for the duration of Irish Water's third revenue control period, RC3, although the company could not access the fund for diversion of projects. Irish Water is now proposing that the...
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: What about Lanesborough?
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: The ESB bill is going to be €600,000 to €2.5 million for one Limerick company, one company.
- Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)
Richard O'Donoghue: Ah, look.