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Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I can get you help now.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: As a person who has been in the building trade all his life, since leaving school early at 15, I have built many houses for people. I was glad to have and to create employment building houses. When I look at the record of the Labour Party and hear its members heckling across the floor, saying this, that and the other, I note the same people said in the media that they would build 1 million...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: It goes without saying that the axis of support for persons with disabilities is failing due to a lack of funding and prolonged periods of waiting for appointments. The lack of funding in the budget was one thing, but this proposed amendment causes further insult and takes responsibility away from the Government and its commitment to provide for, protect and care for the most vulnerable...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the time that children are waiting for seno equipment to be provided in view that this delay is having an impact on their education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9971/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 619. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on trollies per day from December 2023 to date at University Hospital Limerick, in tabular form. [9970/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 739. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that HSE clerical staff currently on career breaks and requesting to return to work are not reinstated due to the HSE recruitment freeze; if these issues will be addressed to allow these staff return to their current positions as they are already employees of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank everyone for coming in. I was watching the proceedings online before I came in. Infrastructure is key and nothing can happen without it. We cannot build extra houses or accommodation if we do not have infrastructure. If a person in a town or village becomes homeless, the emergency facilities available to them through the various agencies are usually based in the cities. People...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is for anyone who wants to address it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have another quick question on this. Do the witnesses believe that we should protect people in the here and now? We should protect the facades and roof structures of our old buildings so that the streetscape does not change but modernise the back of these buildings so that we can house the people who need housing in these areas. We could bring old buildings in line with the fire...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have one small comment on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Brownfield sites need infrastructure. The data on sewerage systems in Ireland, for example, shows that they are at capacity. Brownfield sites need investment in sewerage capacity but that is not happening. The data is there to show that investment is only happening in the cities, which does not cover the brownfield sites in towns and villages.

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: If I was running RTÉ, it would be run like a business. RTÉ is funded by this Government and it is a stakeholder in it. It is supposed to be a national television station. All they are doing is selling false information, as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been giving to their members for many years. It is all one-sided reporting. They have no respect for the people who work...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am an employer myself and have been self-employed for nearly all of my life. I was lucky that a small employer took me on in the building trade when I was 15 years of age. That is when I went out on the buildings. I learned my trade and then I became an employer. I am still in employment and providing employment and I understand how hard it is to be an employer. The problem here is...

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: First and foremost, I would like to sympathise with Deputy Michael Collins and his family on the death of his nephew and friend - a young man who left this life due to suicide. Friends of mine have died from suicide. Friends' children have died from suicide. Mental health is a big problem in this country. It is a bigger problem if the most vulnerable people, when they go out and ask...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: At the outset, I condemn anyone who would burn or damage anyone's property. I condemn anyone who would go out on a violent protest. I do not condemn people who go out and protest peacefully. I refer to people who wish to meet in a community to discuss what is happening in their area because of the lack of information from the Government. One thing the Government and the Departments are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Chair and thank the witnesses for coming in. I am a building contractor and have been all my life. I am a block layer by trade so who can better talk about this? I am not talking to a desktop. The desktop study that was done on this is ludicrous. How do you see something and explain something to somebody if you can do it yourself, which I can do. At the last committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I understand that. In today's market, someone would be lucky to finish out a 2,100 sq. ft house at €420,000. That is not including planning permission fees, engineering fees or any other fees. That is on the basis of today's costs. Those costs are rising. We are eight or nine months out of that system. That is why it galls me. I was missing for much of this due to illness, but I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I ask for a small bit of leniency. The Chair gave an extra two minutes to the previous speaker. I ask him to give the two minutes to the witnesses, particularly if they want to reply to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: There is a vulnerability as well, Chair.